Calligraphy Artist: Hirano Goshōken Chūan (Japanese, active ca. 1600–1675)

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1670

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Handscroll: ink on silver and gold ganpi paper

Dimensions

with mounting: 12 3/16 × 605 11/16 in. (31 × 1538.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Alex Kerr, B.A. 1974

Accession Number

2016.87.4

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

Inscriptions

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