Dragons and Clouds

Maker(s)
Artist: Tawaraya Sōtatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)
Historical period(s)
Momoyama or Edo period, 1590-1640
Medium
Ink and pink tint on paper
Dimensions
H x W (overall): 171.5 x 374.3 cm (67 1/2 x 147 3/8 in)
Geography
Japan
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Accession Number
F1905.229
On View Location
Freer Gallery 05: Rinpa Screens
Classification(s)
Painting
Type

Screen (six-panel)

Keywords
dragon, Edo period (1615 - 1868), Japan, Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
Provenance

To 1905
Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1905 [1]

From 1905 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1905 [2]

From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] Undated folder sheet. See Voucher No. 34, September 1905, S.I. 78, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)

Charles Lang Freer 1854-1919
Kobayashi Bunshichi (C.L. Freer source) ca. 1861-1923

Published References
  • Yashushi Murashige. Motto shiritai Tawaraya Sotatsu: shogai to sakuhin. Ato biginazu korekushon Tokyo. .
  • Yuko Ikeda. Rinpa no tanoshimi [Favorites of Rinpa]. Tokyo. .
  • Zaigai Nihon no Shiho [Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections]. 10 vols., Tokyo, 1979 - 1980. vol. 5: pl. 28.
  • Sotatsu. no. 461 Tokyo. fig. 42.
  • Satoko Tamamushi. Tamaraya Sotasu and the Tradition of Gold and Silver Paintings in Japanese Art. Japan. .
  • Hisaka Masashi. Meisho Meigenroku [A Collection of the Wise Words of Famous Shoguns]. Japan. Cover and chapter title pages.
  • Title uknown. vol. 3. p. 7.
  • Shuko Nishimoto. Korin, Kenzan. Meiho Nihon No bijutsu, vol. 20 Tokyo. p. 65.
  • Sherman Lee. The Freer's Studies in Connoisseurship (Review): Museum News. vol. 44, no. 1 New York, Spring 1984. p. 68, fig. 6b.
  • Keiko Nakamachi. Koetsu, Sotatsu. Meiho Nihon no bijutsu, vol. 19 Tokyo. pp. 93-94, pl. 37.
  • Ryō Furuta. Yawaraya Sotatsu. Tokyo. pp. 132-133, fig. 17-18.
  • Yukio Yoshioka. Kedamono, sakana, kai. Nihon no isho, vol. 10 Kyoto. p. 175.
  • Chinami Nakjima. Iroiro-Zukan III: 2005-2009. p. 197.
Collection Area(s)
Japanese Art
Web Resources
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