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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1985.666
People
Daishin Gitō, Japanese (1657 - 1730)
Title
Water Plant (Ukikusa) and Zen Aphorism
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Ukikusa
Classification
Paintings with Calligraphy
Work Type
painting with calligraphy, hanging scroll
Date
c. 1720
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/199402

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
painting proper: 28 x 55.3 cm (11 x 21 3/4 in.)
overall including cord and roller ends: 113 x 62.9 cm (44 1/2 x 24 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Murasakino Kyōmyōshi
  • inscription: Ukikusa no shōzuru kō wa, yayoi sue; mata ya fuyu kujiku ukikusa yomogi no kusabana -- Murasakino Kyōmyōshi
    Late spring is the season when the waterweeds appear; the densely flowering waterweed and sagebush that winter will once more destroy.
  • signature: signature: Murasakino Kyōmyōshi
  • seal: Daishin (rectangular seal)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia
Accession Year
1985
Object Number
1985.666
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John M. Rosenfield, Fumiko Cranston, and Edwin A. Cranston, The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature: Selections from the Hofer and Hyde Collections, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), Cat. No. 39 / p. 123
  • John M. Rosenfield, The Japanese Courtier: Painting, Calligraphy, and Poetry from the Fogg Art Museum, the Philip Hofer Collection (With a Complementary Selection of Lacquers and Other Arts of Japan from the Collection of F. Bailey Vanderhoef, Jr.), exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA, 1980), Cat. No. 24 / p. 39 (not illustrated)

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2740 Buddhist II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/09/2015 - 06/02/2016

Verification Level

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