Object details
Accession number
P29w8.2
Primary Creator
Japanese
Full title
Rice Cultivation in the Four Seasons: Spring and Summer
Creation Date
about 1600
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection by 1902.
Marks
Seal (upper right): Kano Motonobu [probably spurious]
Dimensions
171.4 x 381 cm (67 1/2 x 150 in.)
Display Media
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Third Floor Passage
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 5. (as by Motonobu, 1550-1620)
Yasuko Horioka et al. Oriental and Islamic Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1975), p. 136 (under "Objects Not Catalogued").
Victoria Weston. East Meets West: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo. Exploring Treasures in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum V. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1992), pp. 4, 43 illl, 39-40 n. 71, 51-57 ill., 63 n. 9-11.
John M. Rosenfield. "Japanese Painting Workshops and the Gardner Museum Collections." Competition and Collaboration: Hereditary Schools in Japanese Culture. Fenway Court, vol. 24 (Boston, 1993), pp. 10-13 fig. 3.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), pp. 175 ill, 184-85 ill.
Alan Chong. "Introduction: Journeys East" in Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), p. 50 n. 141.
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