The Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety Artist, circle of: Kanō Mitsunobu (Japanese, 1561/65–1608)

ca. early 17th century

Asian Art

Not on view
Medium

Pair of six-panel folding screens: ink, color, gold and silver pigments, and gold foil on paper

Dimensions

unframed: 59 13/16 × 143 5/16 in. (152 × 364 cm)
66 1/8 × 149 5/8 × 3/4 in. (167.96 × 380.05 × 1.91 cm)

Credit Line

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

Accession Number

2002.84.1.1

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Momoyama period (1573–1615), Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Private collection, Kyushu, Japan. Acquired by Leighton R. Longhi, New York; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2002
Bibliography
  • Sadako Ohki, "Japanese Art at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 42
  • Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 156–57, 378, pl. 141
  • Hiroshi Kawasaki, "Kenkyuu shirou Sagabon Nijuushikou no sashi-e sakusha ni tsuite (Ge)," Kokka Magazine 1240 (February 1999), 28–31
  • Hiroshi Kawasaki, "Kenkyuu shirou Sagabon Nijuushikou no sashi-e sakusha ni tsuite (Jou)," Kokka Magazine 1238 (December 1998), 30–33
  • Hiroshi Kawasaki, "Kanou Shouei hitsu Nijuushikouzy byoubu," Kokka Magazine 1122 (1989),
  • Koichi Nakamura, ed., Shaka ichidaiki: Nijushiko, Shohan (Tokyo: Waseda Daigaku Shuppanbu, 1988), 4–8, 263–332
  • "Daigamen ni miru sansuikousei no tokurei ni tsuite: shoki Kano ha no baai," Kokka Magazine 1086 (August 1985), 13–29
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

human figures (visual works)

Subject

paragon

Inscriptions

狩野光信工房　二十四孝　紙本金箔地金銀着色墨画六曲一双屏風左隻　桃山―江戸時代

Signed

No signature

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