hanging scroll;
painting
- Museum number
- 1913,0501,0.386
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. Merchant's wife walking with daughter and maid along country path among blossoming cherry trees. Ink, colour and gold on silk. Signed and sealed.
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[Jap.Ptg.1420, image (a)] -
[Jap.Ptg.1420, image (b)] -
[Jap.Ptg.1420, image (c)] -
[Jap.Ptg.1420, image (d)] -
[Jap.Ptg.1420, image (T)] -
[Jap.Ptg.1420, image (Ta)] -
- Production date
- 1801-1810
- Dimensions
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Height: 94 centimetres
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Width: 31.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Clark 1992
Three women - the wife of a merchant shielding her face from the sun with a fan, her daughter and a maid - are walking along some country path among blossoming cherry trees, perhaps at Gotenyama or some such other spot famous in the city for flower viewing ('hanami'). The pose of the maid, seen from behind and staring off out of the painting, is a visual means of indicating the informality of the scene, a break from normal custom and habit to enjoy an outing at this special time of the year.
The chronology of Shumman's works has so far been established in only its broadest outlines (see the comments on the use of 'go' and seals in nos 66, 67). The seal on the present painting is thought to have been abandoned after the early Bunka era (1804-18), and the generally shorter proportions of the figures in comparison with Shumman's earlier works suggest perhaps a date in the first decade of the nineteenth century.
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Asahi 1996
扇子を日にかざした商人の妻、その娘と侍女の3人が、桜の咲く田舎の小道を歩いている。江戸の花見の名所として知られた御殿山かどこかであろう。
画面の外を見やる侍女の後姿は、春のこの特別な時期、日常から逃れて外出を楽しむという本場面のくだけた楽しみを視覚的に示している。
俊満作品の編年は、現時点では大枠でしかなされていない（号•印の使用についてはNos.47,48解説参照）。本作品の印章は文化年間初年以降廃棄されたものと考えられており、俊満の初期作品に比較して人物の丈が低いことから、19世紀第一4半期の作と推定される。
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 Feb-Jun, BM Japanese Galleries, 'Japan from prehistory to the present'
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings belonging to Arthur Morrison was purchased by Sir William Gwynne-Evans, who presented it to the British Museum in 1913.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1913,0501,0.386
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.1420 (Japanese Painting Number)
