A courtesan and her attendant under a cherry tree
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Object Details
- Artist
- Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century)
- Description
- A courtesan and her attendant under a cherry tree. Color. Poem. Signature and seal. Paper kakemono.
- Signatures
- Signed: Hishikawa Sori ga.
- Inscriptions
- Above the figure of the girl is a comic ode signed Utatsune:
- Ka o tomura
- Sode no oshisa ni
- Furisode no
- Kino o shinobu
- Hana no shitakage.
- Translation:
- Translation:
- Provenance
- To 1898
- Edward S. Hull Jr., New York to 1898 [1]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Edward S. Hull Jr. in 1898 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 195, pg. 43, as well as Voucher No. 38, November 1898, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Edward S. Hull Jr. was Ernest Francisco Fenollosa’s (1853-1908) lawyer. Hull often acted as an agent, facilitating purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa, as well as purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa's
- well-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives). See also, Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pgs. 15 and 34. See further, Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill, Freer: A Legacy of Art, (Washington, DC and New York: Freer Gallery of Art and H. N. Abrams, 1993), pgs. 133-134.
- [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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Edward S. Hull Jr. (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- late 18th-early 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1898.431
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Color on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 122.8 × 49.5 cm (48 3/8 × 19 1/2 in)
- Origin
- Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- tree
- cherry tree
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- cherry blossom
- courtesan
- Japan
- ukiyo-e
- kakemono
- Japanese Art
- attendant
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1898.431
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye36e3294e6-f1d2-4504-befa-b47e5365eb38
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