Birth of Honen: Honen Shonin Den-E (segment from a handscroll)

ca. 1300

Japanese

Ink and color on paper

16 x 23 1/2 in. (40.64 x 59.69 cm)

Overall h.: 50 1/4 in.

Overall w.: 28 in.

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

48.174

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Legends, Tales, Poetry: Visual Narrative in Japanese Art, December 22, 2012 - July 21, 2013

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art", February 5 - July 12, 1987

Published ReferencesLee, Sherman. "Seven Early Japanese Paintings," in Art Quarterly, Autumn 1949, pp. 309-324, discussed pp. 319-320, illus. p. 318

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. 59

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, "A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art", copublished by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1987, p. 125

Trubner, Henry, Michael Knight, William Rathbun, "A Thousand Cranes: Japanese Treasures in the Seattle Art Museum," Orientations, June 1987, pp. 50-59, ill. p. 53

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