Birth of Honen: Honen Shonin Den-E (segment from a handscroll)
Dateca. 1300
Maker
Japanese
Object number48.174
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, 1987Published 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. 53Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions16 x 23 1/2 in. (40.64 x 59.69 cm)
Overall h.: 50 1/4 in.
Overall w.: 28 in.
MediumInk and color on paper
Japanese
ca. 1300
Object number: 48.175
Object number: 69.9.4
Japanese
1278
Object number: 48.169
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1815-49
Object number: 39.163