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Image Not Available for Poem from Collection of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years (Senzai wakashû) with design of butterflies
Poem from Collection of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years (Senzai wakashû) with design of butterflies
Image Not Available for Poem from Collection of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years (Senzai wakashû) with design of butterflies

Poem from Collection of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years (Senzai wakashû) with design of butterflies

Hon'ami Kôetsu (Japanese, 1558–1637)
Tawaraya Sôtatsu (Japanese, died about 1642)
early 17th century
Medium/TechniqueSection from a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and mica on paper
DimensionsImage: 28.9 x 40.5 cm (11 3/8 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto in Honor of Judith Dowling and John Dowling
Accession number2014.1499
On View
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ClassificationsCalligraphy
Collections
Provenance1999, sold by Takashi Yanagi Object of Fine Arts (gallery), Kyoto, to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA; 2014, gift of Sylvan Barnet and the estate of William Burto to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 29, 2014)