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Transcendent Attacking a Whirlwind


Fusen zu byôbu
風仙図屏風
Soga Shôhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1764

Medium/Technique Six-panel folding screen; ink and light gold on paper
Dimensions Image: 155.8 x 364 cm (61 5/16 x 143 5/16 in.)
Mount: 171.5 x 383.5 cm (67 1/2 x 151 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4510
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #65; MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 17, fig. 5; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. IV (Shôhaku, Jakuchû), no. 6
ProvenanceBy 1886, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 - d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold by Ernest Fenollosa to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 - d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)