Catalogue information
Muromachi period, 1482
Red and black lacquer with gold leaf
27.4 x 29.7 x 29 cm (10 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/8 in.)
Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Shinra Zenshindō, at Onjōji, Shiga Prefecture
Literature
Kawada Sadamu 1985, no. 27
; Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum 1998, fig. 8
; 1998
Negoro: Sono katachi to iro (Negoro: Form and color). Exh. cat. [Wajima]: Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 20.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 788 in Volume II of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
underside of tabletop
Text
[top of table] Myōjin
; [underside of tabletop] Society of Shinra Daishi, one of stem tables, six large and six small, total twelve
; [stem] Myōjin
; [top of stem] Society of Shinra Daishi, one of stem tables, six large and six small, total twelve
; [bottom of stem] Fifth month twenty-fifth day of 1482; Society of Shinra Daishi, one of twelve stem tables; petitioner Gon Risshi Ryōjū go Nakatani Hōjibō