PaintingsJapanese

Plum Blossoms

Artists

Itō Jakuchū 伊藤若冲Artist

Classification

Paintings

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink on paper

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

31.7 x 27.7 cm (12 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)

Related Artworks

Paintings

Scene from the Illustrated Book on Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyō meisho zuchō)

Unknown Artist, 16th century

One of eight paintings mounted in accordion-fold album format; ink, color and gold on paper

16th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Album of Iconographic Drawings of the Esoteric Buddhist Pantheon (Shingon sect)

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Album; ink on paper

18th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Wave and Rising Sun

Unknown Artist, possibly 17th-18th century

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Japanese

Paintings

Album of Iconographic Drawings of the Esoteric Buddhist Pantheon (Shingon sect)

Unknown Artist, 18th century

Album; ink on paper

Acrylic on wood panel

20th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Scenes from the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari)

Unknown Artist, Late Edo period, 18th-19th century

Six-panel folding screen; ink, color and gold on paper

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Connoisseur's Sketchbook by Kano Tan'yū (Tan'yū shukuzu), Copies of Buddhist Paintings, Vol. II

Kano Tan'yū 狩野探幽, Early Edo period, dated 1668

Second of two handscrolls collecting copies of earlier Buddhist paintings; ink on paper; each sketch with a gourd-shaped vermilion seal reading "Seimei"

17th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Illustrated Story of Mount Oe (Oeyama monogatari), Vol. 3

Unknown Artist, 16th-17th century

Handscroll: 3rd of 4; ink, color, gold and silver on paper

16th-17th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Illustrated Book on Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyō meisho zuchō)

Unknown Artist, c. 1580

Eight paintings mounted in accordion-fold album format; ink, color and gold on paper

16th centuryJapanese

Paintings

Scenes of Suma, The Tale of Genji

Tosa Mitsusada, 19th century

Handscroll; ink, color, gold and silver on paper

19th centuryJapanese

Paintings

The Paulownia Pavilion (Kiritsubo), Illustration to Chapter 1 of the "Tale of Genji" (Genji monogatari)

Unknown Artist, 17th century

Album leaf: one of a group of four (originally from a larger set)

17th centuryJapanese