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Waves at Matsushima

(Japanese, 1658–1716)
18th century
Medium/TechniqueSix-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper
DimensionsImage: 150.2 × 367.8 cm (59 1/8 × 144 13/16 in.)
Overall (Including mount): 170.2 × 384.8 cm (67 × 151 1/2 in.)
Credit LineFenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession number11.4584
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
Provenance1880 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa in Kyoto; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession date: December 7, 1911)
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late Kan'ei (1624–44) era
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