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Gallery Text

The restricted palette used here is expanded by the trademark School of Kōrin tarashikomi technique, which creates subtle tension between the lucidity of the ink base and the filmy opacity of the white pigment dripped into it while still wet. Leaves are abstracted into dreamlike silhouettes, punctuated on a diagonal axis by orange trumpet creeper blooms, red tiger lilies, white fleabane, and yellow gourd flowers. This mediated inkwork recalls certain works by Ogata Kōrin (1658–1716), but perhaps owes more to the flora that his predecessor Tawaraya Sōtatsu (active c. 1600–1640) cultivated in large-scale folding-screen paintings like those displayed nearby.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.222
People
Fukae Roshū 深江蘆舟, Japanese (c. 1699 - 1757)
Title
Autumn Flowers
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, hanging scroll
Date
18th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340533

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
image only: H. 126 x W. 50.5 cm (49 5/8 x 19 7/8 in.)
with mount: H. 224.5 x W. 64.3 cm (88 3/8 x 25 5/16 in.)
overall with mounting, roller ends and suspension cord: H. 229.6 x W. 70 cm (90 3/8 x 27 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • seal: round, relief: 蘆舟 [Roshū]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[YANAGI, Takashi, Kyoto (by 1987)], sold; to Robert and Betsy Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1987-2017), gift; to Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.222
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Murashige Yasushi, Rinpa [Rimpa Painting] vol. I, Shikosha Publishing Co. (Kyoto, Japan, 1989), illus. 106-9.
  • The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, exh. cat., Yomiuri Shinbunsha (Tokyo, 2013), p. 38, cat. 4
  • Musée Cernuschi, Le Japon au fil des saisons: Collection Robert et Betsy Feinberg, exh. cat., Paris-Musées (Paris, 2014), pp. 48-49
  • Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), p. 43, fig. 31

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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