Water Birds : One of a pair of screens Calligrapher: Hosoi Kōtaku (Japanese, 1658–1736)

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ca. 1725

Asian Art

Not on view
Medium

Six-panel folding screen: ink on paper, gold paper mounting

Dimensions

68 1/8 × 137 13/16 in. (173 × 350 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Alex Kerr, B.A. 1974

Accession Number

2016.87.8.1

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Calligraphy

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Provenance
Alex Kerr Collection, Kyoto, Japan purchase from Kyoto auction houses and art dealers since the 1970s; gift in 2016 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2016), 18
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

calligraphy, folding screens

Marks

君子林\r\n藤知愼\r\n字曰公慎

Inscriptions

\r\n

Signed

廣澤慎書

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