Calligraphy | Yale University Art Gallery

1925

Medium: Hanging scroll, ink on paper, lacquer rollers
Dimensions: without mounting: 52 9/16 × 12 5/8 in. (133.5 × 32 cm)
with mounting: 59 3/8 × 16 1/16 in. (150.8 × 40.8 cm)
with rollers: 17 3/4 × 7/8 in. (45.1 × 2.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Gitter-Yelen Collection
Accession Number: 2008.152.2
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Taisho era (1912–26)
Classification: Calligraphy
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Provenance

The Gitter-Yellen Collection, New Orleans

Bibliography

"Acquisitions 2009," in "State of the Art: Contemporary Sculpture," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009), 152

Yuji Yamashita, Zenga: The Return from America (Tokyo: Asano Kenkyujo, 2000), 169, no. 91

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

calligraphy, hanging scrolls

"Writtten by the eighty-five year old man Nantembo." Nantembo is a flourish signature.

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