Scenes from the Life of Gensei Sho-nin

Dateca. 1360

Object number49.92

Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia

Exhibition HistorySeattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum, 1960. San Francisco, California, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Treasures of Japan, 1960. Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix Art Museum, The Image of Buddhist Asia, 1963-64. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures Of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987. 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).Published ReferencesHandbook, Seattle Art Museum: Selected Works from the Permanent Collections. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1951; reproduced p. 91. Fuller, Richard E. Japanese Art in the Seattle Art Museum: An Historical Sketch. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1960 ("Presented in commemoration of the Hundredth Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and the United States of America"), no. 83. Hagen, Margaret A. Varieties of Realism: Geometries of Representational Art. Cambridge University Press, 1986; p. 143, reproduced fig. 6.19 (a). Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, eds. Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum, 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun; cat. no. 27-1.

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

Dimensions60 x 31 7/8 in. (152.4 x 80.96 cm) Overall h.: 87 in. Overall w.: 38 5/8 in.

MediumHanging scroll; ink and color on silk