painting;
hanging scroll
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.1702
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Princess Joruri playing koto (zither) inside a building, accompanied by her female musicians; Ushiwaka-maru playing flute outside the gate. Ink, colour and gold on silk. Sealed.
- Production date
- 1800-1880
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.20 centimetres
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Width: 61 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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Clark 1992
The silk of the painting is completely unblemished and looks as if it would have been almost brand new when the scroll was purchased by Anderson in the 1870s. The design of Ushiwaka (the future Minamoto no Yoshitsune) visiting Princess Joruri is taken from a famous print now attributed to Sugimura Jihei (reproduced, for instance, in 'Ukiyo-e taikei', vol. 1 (1974), no. 9). The colour combinations and effects of 'shading' are not at all characteristic of a late seventeenth-century painting.
Literature:
Anderson, William, 'Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum'. London, Trustees of the British Museum, 1886, no. 1702.
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'1702. An imitation of Moronobu's work.' (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
- 1881,1210,0.1702
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.1376 (Japanese Painting Number)