painting;
calligraphy;
album
- Museum number
- 1913,0501,0.620
- Description
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Painting, album. 28 double-page pictures, with 'kyoka' poems. Ink and colour on paper.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 27.50 centimetres (covers)
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Width: 20.20 centimetres (covers)
- Curator's comments
- The album combines paintings by such Ukiyo-e artists as Shinsai, Gosei, Hokuba, Tsukimaro and Shikimaro with 'crazy verse' (kyoka) poems by leading poets of the Bunka era (1804-18). It has all the hallmarks of having been executed impromptu at a 'calligraphy and painting party' (shogakai) such as would have been held for a paying audience of onlookers in large restaurants in the city of Edo. Indeed Godo's Chinese maxim - 'The dragon twitches and casts a shadow of one thousand feet' - is prefaced with a seal reading 'at a party' (sekijo). (Label copy TTC, 1997)
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 1913,0501,0.620
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.2918 (Japanese Painting Number)
