painting
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.110.JA
- Description
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Painting. Buddhist wall decoration, dragon and waves. Ink and colour on paper.
- Production date
- 1840s-1860s (Text (accounts) on the used paper repurposed for the backing paper contains the date of Ansei 3 (1856).)
- Dimensions
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Height: 42 centimetres
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Width: 228.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- In set with 1881,1210,0.91-109
'Nos 91-94, 106 & 110 are probably by Kano Chikanobu, the rest of the series by unknown hand.' (unattributed annotation in the specially interleaved Japanese Study Room copy of Anderson 1886)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of over 2,000 Japanese and Chinese paintings assembled by Prof. William Anderson during his residency in Japan, 1873-1880, was acquired by the Museum in 1881. The items were not listed in the register, but rather were published separately as the 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum' (Longmans & Co, 1886).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1881,1210,0.110.JA
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.3546 (Japanese Painting Number)