hanging scroll;
painting;
gassaku;
storage box
- Museum number
- 2018,3037.1.1-2
- Description
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Painting, pair of hanging scrolls, collaborative work (gassaku). Sixty-four lucky jewels (hoju) painted by sixty-four people. Ink and light colour on silk. Each element signed, and most also sealed. With paulownia storage box.
- Production date
- 1905
- Dimensions
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Height: 128.50 centimetres (each image)
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Height: 203 centimetres (each mount)
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Width: 51.50 centimetres (each image)
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Width: 72 centimetres (each mount)
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- Curator's comments
- On a pair of hanging scrolls, a total of 64 people, including painters, tea masters, Noh performers, priests, government officials and other still obscure men and women, all active or born in Kyoto, contribute a picture of a ‘lucky jewel (hōju 宝珠). Each element is inscribed with their age, signature and a seal. From the contributors’ ages, the production date can be specified as 1905. Some of the artists are well-known for establishing Kyoto art schools at the beginning of Japan’s modern era. This pair of paintings serves as a useful resource to know minor artists’ dates so far left unconfirmed.
The British Museum’s Japanese collection already has strength in Kyoto/Osaka paintings, surimono prints and illustrated books of the late Edo period to early Meiji era, built since the early stages of collecting Japanese pictorial art. This painting object was made in the late Meiji-era Kyoto cultural environment, illustrating the modern evolution of a traditional art form in this important geographical area. (A. Yano, 2018)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2022 23 Mar - 8 May, Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, The Pictorial Arts and the Salon Culture of Kyoto and Osaka
- Acquisition date
- 2018
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 2018,3037.1.1-2
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.Add.1382
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.Add.1383
