Road to Daitokuji Shinjuan Artist: Kawada Kan (Japanese, 1927–1999)

1974

Asian Art

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Creative stencil: ink and colors on washi paper

Dimensions

image: 11 1/16 × 17 15/16 in. (28.1 × 45.5 cm)
sheet: 18 7/8 × 25 3/16 in. (48 × 64 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Allan Appel and Suzanne Boorsch

Accession Number

2009.190.2

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Showa era (1926–89)

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Suzanne Boorsch and Allan Appel, New Haven, Conn; gift in 2009 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Edition

Edition 24/50

Marks

24/50 at bottom left margin close to the image line. In pencil in Japanese at the bottom paper margin, "Kyoto Daitokuji Shinjuan no Michi, '74" (followed by his signature in English). At the edge of the right bottom paper it says In English in pencil, "5-708 Kyoto Daitokuji Shinjuan-no-michi 14,000-" The last number seems to indicate it cost 14,000 yen."

Inscriptions

At left corner it has an irregular rectangular format (looking like a stone signage) says, [vertically from right to left] "[migi oku??] Shinjuan; migi naka (right middle) Daisen-in; Shoumen (front view) Houshun-in ".

Signed

In English in pencil "Kan Kawada" at bottom margin close to the image line.

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