Resources
Exhibition HistoryKansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art, and St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, Art of Japan in Edo Period, Mar. 16 - Apr. 21, 1958.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum, Aug. 26 - Nov. 6, 1960.
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Decorative Style, Aug. 30 - Oct. 15, 1961.
New York, New York, Asia Society, Asia House Gallery, Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections II, 1970.
New York, New York, Japan House Gallery, Rimpa Exhibition, 1971.
Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo National Museum, Rimpa School Exhibition, 1972.
Los Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, The UCLA Art Council Annual Exhibition, Birds, Beasts, Blossoms and Bugs: The Nature of Japanese Art, Mar. 30 - May 23, 1976.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987.
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, Word in Flower: The Visualization of Classical Literature in 17th Century Japan, Sept. 22 - Nov. 12, 1989.
Osaka, Japan, Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, The Calligraphy of Koetsu-Great Works of the Keicho, Genna, and Kanei Eras, May 17 - June 24, 1990.
Nagoya, Japan, Nagoya City Museum, Beauty of Rimpa, Apr. 23 - May 24, 1994.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Masterpieces of Japanese Art from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Nov. 1, 1998 - Mar. 1, 1999.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Flights of Fancy: Natural and Supernatural Images In Japanese Art, Dec. 9, 1998 - Aug. 1, 1999.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hon'ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master, Aug. 6 - Oct. 29, 2000.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Years of Beauty: Japanese Art in Seattle, July 16, 2001 - Nov. 17, 2002.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Five Masterpieces of Asian Art: The Story of their Conservation, May 5, 2007 - Sept. 9, 2007.
Tokyo, Japan, Suntory Museum of Art, Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, July 25 - Sept. 6, 2009 (Kobe, Japan, Kobe City Museum, Sept. 19 - Dec. 6, 2009; Kofu, Japan, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Dec. 23, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010; Atami, Japan, MOA Museum of Art, Mar. 13 - May 9, 2010; Fukuoka, Japan, Fukuoka Art Museum, May 23 - July 19, 2010).
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Luminous: The Art of Asia, Oct. 13, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012.
Washington, D.C., Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Sotatsu, Oct. 24, 2015 - Jan. 31, 2016. Text by Yukio Lippit and James T. Ulak. Cat. no. 23, reproduced pp. 224-225.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Boundless: Stories of Asian Art, Feb. 8, 2020 - ongoing [on view Feb. 8, 2020 - July 11, 2021].
Published References"Handbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1951, p. 98 (b&w)
Lee, Sherman E. "Sotatsu and the Tale of Ise," in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vol. 40 No.4, Apr. 1953, p.62-64.
Fuller, Richard E. "Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 140a and b
Li, Chu-tsing. "The Oberlin Orchid and the Problem of P'u-ming," in Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, Vol. 16 (1962), pp. 49-76, p. 69, 70; p. 70, fig. 20
Thomas, Edward B. "Oriental Art in the Seattle Art Museum," in Art in America, no. 1, 1965, illus. p. 51
Waterhouse, D. B. "Tawaraya Sotatsu and The Deer Scroll," Center for Asian Arts, University of Washington (Jan 1966), p. 1-76.
Trubner, Henry. "Asian Art in the Seattle Art Museum: Fifty Years of Collecting." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1983, pp. 4-5, illus. b&w
"Selected Works." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, pp. 192-193
Fuller, Richard E. "A Gift to the City." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1993, p. 27
"The Arts of Honami Koetsu: Japanese Renaissance Master." Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000. pp. 191-193
"Seattle Art Museum's treasured 'Deer Scroll' restored," in the Asian Reporter, 25 January 2005. Portland, OR.
"1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die." London: Quintet Publishing Limited, 2006, p. 210
"Seattle Art Museum: Bridging Cultures." London: Scala Publishers Ltd. for the Seattle Art Museum, 2007, pp. 68-69
Deer Scroll. Online interactive publication, 2007, http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/interactives/deerscroll/sam_deer.htm
Clysdale, Heather Colburn, The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society, "Journal", Autumn 2008, pg. 12
Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 46
Tamamushi, Satoko, Tawaraya Sotatsu and the Tradition of Gold and Silver Paintings in Japanese Art, University of Tokyo Press, 2012, pg. 20
Cartier, Paris Nouvelle Vague New Collection catalogue, No 142, October 2013, pg. 85-86
Neave, Dorinda; Lara Blanchard, and Marika Sardar, "Asian Art" My Search Lab books, 2015, p. 359. illus 15-6
Tamamushi, Satoko. Koetsu. Tokyo, 2015; p.42, reproduced
Tamamushi, Satoko. The Artist in Edo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018; p. 57, reproduced fig. 9.
Foong, Ping, Xiaojin Wu, and Darielle Mason. "An Asian Art Museum Transformed." Orientations vol. 51, no. 3 (May/June 2020): pp. 52, 65-66, reproduced fig. 10 (detail).
Feltens, Frank. Ogata Korin: Art in Early Modern Japan. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021; p. 92, reproduced fig. 54.
