Minister Kibi's Adventures in China (Kibi daijin nittô emaki), scroll 2

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Minister Kibi's Adventures in China (Kibi daijin nittô emaki), scroll 2

Artist unknown, Japanese

12th century

Medium/TechniqueHandscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper; Rosewood endknobs (genus Dalbergia Oliveri)

DimensionsImage: 32 x 459.3 cm (12 5/8 x 180 13/16 in.)
Overall (including endpapers and jiku): 36.5 × 590.5 cm (14 3/8 × 232 1/2 in.)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds by exchange from the William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Accession number32.131.2

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Asia

ProvenanceBy 1441, Oshio Hachiman Shrine, Wakasa Province (now Fukui Prefecture); probably acquired from the shrine by the Sakai family, Lords of Wakasa Province, and passed to Sakai Tadamichi (d. 1920) [see note]; to his son, Sakai Tadatae (b. 1883 - d. 1939); 1923, sold by Sakai Tadatae at auction, Tokyo Art Club, to Toda Yashichi, 2nd (b. 1867 - d. 1930), Osaka; to his son, Toda Yashichi, 3rd (Toda Rosui; dealer, b. 1892 - d. 1942), Osaka; 1932, sold by Toda Rosui, through Yamanaka and Co., New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 7, 1932)

NOTE: On the early provenance, see Robert T. Paine, Jr., "The Scroll of Kibi's Adventures in China," MFA Bulletin 31, no. 183 (February 1933): p. 2.