- Museum number
- 1881,1210,0.70.JA
- Title
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Object: Hell of Assembly
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Series: Rokudo-e (Six Realms of Birth)
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Scenes of punishment for human sins including lust and sexual transgressions. Ink and colour on paper. Inscribed.
- Production date
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1800-1880
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13thC (original)
- Dimensions
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Height: 193 centimetres (mount)
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Height: 152.60 centimetres
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Width: 69 centimetres (mount)
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Width: 67 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In set with 1881,1210,0.68.JA
In set with 1881,1210,0.69.JA
In set with 1881,1210,0.71.JA
In set with 1881,1210,0.72.JA
In set with 1881,1210,0.73.JA
In set with 1881,1210,0.74.JA
In set with 1881,1210,0.75.JA
In set with 1881,1210,0.76.JA
In set with 1881,1210,0.77.JA
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2000 24 Mar-26 Jun, London, BM, Japanese Galleries, 'Japan Time'
2008 Jun-Oct 10, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
2011 Oct – 2012 Feb, 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
- 1881,1210,0.70.JA
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.4 (Japanese Painting Number)
