Three Jewel Rivers (Three Tamagawa)

Artist: Maruyama Ōshin (Japanese, 1790–1838)

Medium

Triptych, hanging scrolls, ink, color, and gold on paper; with ivory rollers

Dimensions

without mounting: 29 15/16 × 17 1/2 in. (76 × 44.5 cm)

Credit Line

Purchased with gifts from the Henry Luce Foundation at the request of H. Christopher Luce, B.A. 1972; Mr. F. Cheney Cowles, B.A. 1966; B. D. G. Leviton Foundation; and an anonymous donor; and purchased with the Ann and Gilbert H. Kinney, B.A. 1953, M.A. 1954; and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Funds

Accession Number

2004.27.1.1-.3

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Sondra Milne Henderson Fine Art Ltd., London, UK; purchased in 2004 by theYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Murase Miyeko, "The Evolution of Meisho-e and the Case of Mu Tamagawa," Orientations 26, no. 1 (January 1995), 94–100
  • Murase Miyeko, Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection, exh. cat. (Richmond, Va.: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1993), no. 39
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Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, landscapes (representations), triptychs

Subject

monks plovers rivers

Marks

Seals: Ōshin (應震), Hyakuri (百里)

Inscriptions

己丑春日

Signed

Ōshin sha (應震写)

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