Landscape Artist: Soga Nichokuan (Japanese, active ca. 1625–60)

Medium

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper, ivory rollers

Dimensions

without mounting: 18 × 20 1/4 in. (45.7 × 51.5 cm)
with mounting: 53 9/16 × 25 in. (136 × 63.5 cm)
with rollers: 26 15/16 in. (68.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton R. Longhi, B.A. 1967

Accession Number

2006.210.5a-b

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Leighton R. Longhi, and Rosemarie Longhi, New York; gift in 2006 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography

  • Araki Nori, Dainihon shoga meika taikan: rakkan inpu hen (Tokyo: Daiichi Shobo, 1991), 545.

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Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, landscapes (representations)

Subject

mountain tree

Marks

Seals: Nichokuan (二直庵), Kōin (孔胤)

Signed

No signature; two square relief seals "Nichokuan" (red characters, square seal) and "Houin" (red characters, square seal with double outlines around the characters). Cf.Araki, Dainihon Shoga Meika Taikan Rakkan Inpu hen, p. 545

See character in paper file.

*Another reading for the second seal, Kouin, has been read as "Houin" (tsutsumu) by Yanagi Kouichi.

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