hanging scroll;
painting;
gassaku
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.1413
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll, collaborative work (gassaku). The seven sages of the bamboo grove, painted by seven artists. Ink and light colour on silk. Signed.
- Production date
- 1843
- Dimensions
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Height: 97.20 centimetres
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Width: 35.80 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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Each figure in this work is painted by a 'goyo-eshi' (painter in official service). Based on the ranks mentioned in the signatures, the painting was produced between 1844 and 1853. According to Shimohara Miho (Kagoshima University), the omission of family names indicates it was privately painted. Further, the central position of the contribution by Kano Eitoku Tatsunobu suggests that the work was created in 1843 to inaugurate him as head of the Nakabashi Kano family. See 下原美保著「大英博物館所蔵「竹林七賢人図」に見る幕末御用絵師の絵画制作活動と画壇における位置づけについて」 in 下原美保編『近世やまと絵再考：日・英・米それぞれの視点から』 (ブリュッケ、2013), pp. 219-242.
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'Yeitoku (not Yei-shin) Tatsunobu.' (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
- 1881,1210,0.1413
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.1088 (Japanese Painting Number)
