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Photo: Susan A. Cole
Flying Liezi
Photo: Susan A. Cole

Flying Liezi

Dateearly 16th century
Object number74.18
Photo CreditPhoto: Susan A. Cole
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, A Thousand Cranes: Treasures of Japanese Art, Feb. 5 - July 12, 1987. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Signs of Fortune, Symbols of Immortality, Nov. 2, 2000 - July 25, 2001. 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 ReferencesOnishi, Hiroshi. "Chinese Lore for Japanese Spaces," in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New Series, Vol. 51, No. 1, Immortals and Sages: Paintings from Ryoanji Temple (Summer 1993), pp. 3-47; p. 41 (54) Kawai, Masatomo, Yasuhiro Nishioka, Yukiko Sirahara, editors, "Luminous Jewels: Masterpieces of Asian Art From the Seattle Art Museum", 2009, The Yomiuri Shimbun, catalogue number 38
Credit LineRichard E. Fuller Acquisition Fund
Dimensions58 3/8 x 131in. (148.3 x 332.7cm)
MediumSix-panel screen; ink and color on paper
Photo: Susan A. Cole
Japanese
early 16th century
Object number: 91.235.1
Photo: Susan A. Cole
Japanese
early 16th century
Object number: 91.235.2
Photo: Susan A. Cole
Tsuji Kako
ca.1910
Object number: 2010.41.33.1
Waves and Plovers
Tsuji Kako
ca.1910
Object number: 2010.41.33.2
Photo: Paul Macapia
early 17th century
Object number: 61.79.1
Photo: Paul Macapia
early 17th century
Object number: 61.79.2
Photo by: Eduardo Calderón
ca.1905
Object number: 2009.70.6.1
Photo by: Eduardo Calderón
ca.1905
Object number: 2009.70.6.2