painting;
handscroll
- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.281
- Title
- Object: Urashima Taro
- Description
-
Painting, handscroll. Story of Urashima Taro. Ink and colour on paper.
- Production date
- 17thC(late)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 31.60 centimetres
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Width: 941.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Calligraphy attributed to Asakura Juken, worked late 17th century (Prof. Ishikawa Toru, 9/2002)
For transcription and photographs, see Tsuji Eiko, Zaigai Nihon emaki no kenkyu to shiryo (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2006).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2016 Apr–Oct, London, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from Prehistory to the Present'
- 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
- 1881,1210,0.281
- Additional IDs
-
Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.301 (Japanese Painting Number)
