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Asian Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Explore image in Artist, attributed to: Sakugen Shuryo, Japanese, 1501–1579
Poem in Chinese (Kanshi)
ca. 1540–49
Hanging scroll: ink on paper; with ivory rollers
without mounting: 16 3/4 × 25 1/2 in. (42.5 × 64.8 cm)
with mounting: 50 × 28 1/2 in. (127 × 72.4 cm)
with mounting: 50 × 28 1/2 in. (127 × 72.4 cm)
Denise and George Hopper Fitch, B.A. 1932 Fund and Fred Olsen Fund
1968.14
Geography:
Kyoto, Japan
Culture:
Japanese, Kyoto
Period:
Muromachi period (1336–1573)
Classification:
Calligraphy
Provenance:
Mayuyama and Co., Tokyo, 1968; purchased in 1968 by Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 51, no. 78, ill.
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.
