The Burke Collection
Zodiac calendar in the shape of a hanging scroll
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Artist

Shibata Zeshin

(柴田是真; 1807–1891)

Catalogue information

Edo period, 1846

Gold and silver maki-e and shell inlay on lacquered wood; 6 plaques decorated on both sides

Container: 25.7 x 7.8 x 4.3 cm (10 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 1 3/4 in.); each plaque approx. 19.9 x 6.3 cm (7 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Ex Coll.: Itō Shige’emon

Literature

Gōke Tadaomi 1981, vol. 1, nos. 103–15
Gōke Tadaomi
1981
Shibata Zeshin meihinshū: Bakumatsu kaikaki no shikkō kaiga (Masterpieces by Shibata Zeshin: Painting and lacquer­ware from the late Edo and early Meiji periods). 2 vols. Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.

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;
Burke 1993, no. 53.
Burke, Mary Griggs
1993
Japanese Art: Personal Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Delray Beach, Fla.: The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 772a–l in Volume II of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

Signatures

(a) Made on a certain day in 1846 by Ta Zeshin upon request; (b) Zeshin; (c) Drawn by Zeshin; (d) Zeshin; (e) Tanyū, copied by Zeshin; (f) Zeshin; (g) Zeshin depicted the spirit; (h) Tairyūkyo; (i) Zeshin; (j) Zeshin; (k) Copy of Minamoto Ōkyo’s painting, Zeshin; (l) Zeshin

Seals

(a) Zeshin; (c) Shin; (d) Zeshin; (h) illegible; (k) Zeshin; (l) Koma