Birds in Landscape
Object Details
- Label
- A document pasted on the back of one of three screens (F1962.12; see also F1962.10) gives a detailed account of the history of the paintings. They are said to have been painted for installation as sliding doors in the Akashi Castle, which was built near the city of Kobe in 1617 by Ogasawara Tadazane (1596-1667), founder of the Kokura clan and a maternal grandson of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616). Akashi Castle was destroyed in a fire fewer than two decades after its completion, but the set of twelve panels to which these paintings belong was saved. The sliding panels would have formed the mural-like decoration of a room in the castle. The paintings have been remounted to folding screens.
- According to the attached document, the panels were painted by Hasegawa Tonin with the occasional assistance of his son, Tojun. Apart from this account, little is known about the painter Hasegawa Tonin. The three screens in the Freer Gallery provide important evidence for the development of the Hasegawa school after the death of its founder, Hasegawa Tohaku (1539-1610).
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Japanese Screens (March 2007 to January 3, 2016)
- Selections from the Japanese Collection (March 22 to November 29, 1999)
- West Grand Staircase Corridor (May 9, 1993 to April 25, 1994)
- Japanese Screens (February 11, 1983 to July 19, 1988)
- Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons in Japanese Art (September 14, 1977 to April 8, 1978)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 1617
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1962.12
- Artist
- Hasegawa Tonin
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Ink, color, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 160.5 x 168 cm (63 3/16 x 66 1/8 in)
- Origin
- Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- landscape
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- pheasant
- Japan
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1962.12
