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The Thirty-six Master Poets

Former TitleThe Thirty-six Immortal Poets
Artist Sakai Hôitsu (Japanese, 1761 - 1828)
Dateearly 19th century
MediumTwo-fold screen; ink and color on paper
DimensionsOverall: 65 × 71 inches (165.1 × 180.34 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number77-50
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

Rimpa: Masterworks of the Japanese Decorative School, Japan House, New York, fall of 1971;

Rinpa: tokubetsuten: bi no keishō- Sōtatsu, Kōrin, Hōitsu, Kiitsu, Nagoya-shi hakubutsukan, Nagoya, April 23- May 22, 1994.

Provenance

With Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr., Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1977;

Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1977.

Published References

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993) 368, (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008) 400, no.71, (repro.).

Harold P. Stern, Rimpa: Masterworks of the Japanese Decorative School, exh. cat. (New York: Japan Society, 1971) 25, pl.46, (repro.).

John Canaday, “review article,” New York Times, September 19, 1971, section D, 23, (repro.).

The Nelson Gallery, Bulletin, Vol. V., November 1978, 35, no. 4, (repro.).

Nagoya-shi hakubutsukan, Rinpa: tokubetsuten: bi no keishō- Sōtatsu, Kōrin, Hōitsu, Kiitsu, exh. cat. (Nagoya-shi: Nagoya-shi hakubutsukan, Chū-nichi shinbunsha, Chūbu nihon hōsō, 1994).

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