Kashyapa : from The Ten Great Disciples of Sakyamuni Artist: Munakata Shikō (Japanese, 1903–1975)

March 3, 1950

Asian Art

Not on view

Medium

Sōsaku hanga: monochrome woodblock print, framed

Dimensions

sheet: 41 × 16 in. (104.1 × 40.6 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917

Accession Number

1967.64.5

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Showa era (1926–89)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Alicia Volk, "Modern Japanese Prints at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007): 161–65, fig. 1.
  • George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 252, no. 466, ill.
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Marks

At the bottom in pencil. "Shikou" in kanji followed by "Munakata" in English and the dating "1950 3.3".

Signed

Signed in pencil and sealed: "Munakata". Imprint number 177. A red seal in the top right corner reads, "Zatsuzendō" (mess hall [could be a pun meaning the dining hall as well as the hall without order])

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