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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1973.67
People
Attributed to Monk Senjun, Japanese (1418 - 1489)
Title
Linked Verses (Renga) on the topic "What Boat?"
Other Titles
Transliterated Title: Renga
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
handscroll
Date
Muromachi period, dated 1474
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Muromachi period, 1392-1568
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/202729

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Handscroll; ink, gold and silver on "kumogami" (cloud-pattern dyed paper)
Dimensions
H. 17.7 cm (6 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: "Senjun"; inscription with the date 1649

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Hofer Collection of the Printed and Graphic Arts of Asia in honor of Miss Louise A. Cort
Accession Year
1973
Object Number
1973.67
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. 70 / pp. 216-217
  • 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. 11 / pp. 19-20
  • Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield, Masters of Japanese Calligraphy, 8th-19th Century, exh. cat., Asia Society Galleries (New York, NY, 1984), Cat. No. 022 / pp. 76-77
  • Melissa McCormick, Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA, 2009), pp. 80-81, fig. 30

Verification Level

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