painting;
hanging scroll
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.241
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. The imperial orchestra, with the emperor and empress seated on a raised mat, with five musicians performing on great drum (taiko), small drum (kakko), pipes (sho), flute (oteki) and the fife (fue). Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.
- Production date
- 1800-1880
- Dimensions
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Height: 144.50 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 55.70 centimetres
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Width: 97.60 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 81.40 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- '241. 真川意一' (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
- 1881,1210,0.241
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.286 (Japanese Painting Number)
