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Bamboo and Wagtail

mid-14th century

Hanging scroll: ink on silk, with ivory or bone rollers

without mounting: 33 1/4 × 15 3/4 in. (84.5 × 40 cm)
Gift of the Art Gallery Associates in honor of Mrs Paul Moore
1965.28
Geography: 
Japan
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Japanese
Period: 
Nanbokuchou period (1336–92)
Classification: 
Paintings
Provenance: 

Mrs. Paul Moore (1885 - 1980), Morristown, NJ, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 304, ill.

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 51, no. 77, ill.

Sadako Ohki, “Japanese Art at Yale,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007): 36.

Sadako Ohki, “What Makes Japanese Painting Japanese,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007): 74–79, 81, fig. 6, 7.

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.