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Daoist Immortal and Hawk on an Oak Tree

By Soga Nichokuan

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Artist

Soga Nichokuan

(曽我二直庵; fl. mid-17th century)

Catalogue information

Edo period

Pair of fan-shaped paintings, mounted on a two-panel folding screen, ink on paper

Each painting 98.9 x 76 cm (39 x 29 7/8 in.), overall screen 155.1 x 171.2 cm (61 x 67 3/8 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Hayashi Susumu 1980, p. 51, no. 50 (right panel only)

Hayashi Susumu

1980

“Sesson hitsu Chikurin Shichiken zu byōbu (Hatakeyama Kinenkan zō) ni tsuite” (Screen Painting of “The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove,” by Sesson, in the collection of the Hatakeyama Memorial Museum). In Jinbutsuga: Kanga kei jinbutsu (Figure paintings: Figures in Chinese-inspired paintings). Nihon byōbu-e shūsei (Survey of Japanese screen paintings), 4. Reprint, 1982.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 35

Tokyo National Museum

1985a

Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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Lillehoj 1989, fig. 5

Lillehoj, Elizabeth Ann

1989

“Soga Chokuan to Nichokuan no zaibei sakuhin ni tsuite” (Paintings by Soga Chokuan and Nichokuan in American collections). In Nara Prefectural Museum of Art 1989, pp. 46–53.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 79

Avitabile, Gunhild

1990

[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Murase 2000, no. 106.

Murase, Miyeko

2000

Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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