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Keshi zu byôbu
芥子図屏風
School of: Tawaraya Sôtatsu (Japanese, died about 1640)
Japanese
Edo period
17th century

Medium/Technique One from a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold-leafed paper
Dimensions Image: 150.3 x 352.8 cm (59 3/16 x 138 7/8 in.)
Mount: 168.9 x 373.4 cm (66 1/2 x 147 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz
Accession Number11.1272
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #54; Saunders, Le Japon Artistique (MFA, 2010), fig. 3-2; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. VIII (Rimpa), no. 3 (2)
Provenance1911, purchased by Okakura Kakuzô from Yamanaka & Company, London