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Subject:What do I have?
Posted By: Ken Cloud Wed, Jun 01, 2016 IP: 73.31.66.56

Looking to find information on this Japanese painting. Not sure of what I have.







Subject:Re: What do I have?
Posted By: ethan Thu, Jun 02, 2016

You have a chickadee.

Seriously though, Japanese probably but that script is very stylized. Hopefully someone else can help!

Subject:Re: What do I have?
Posted By: Ken Fri, Jun 03, 2016

It was purchased from Yamanaka & Co on 5th Ave probably around 1930-40s

Subject:Re: What do I have?
Posted By: Ken Cloud Tue, Jun 07, 2016

From the Metropolitan Museum website. Information on where this painting was purchased from, Yamanaka & Co.

One may wonder how so many rare works of Japanese art made their way to the Metropolitan from Japanese private collections and temples in the early twentieth century. The answer is that many objects were acquired through negotiations with Yamanaka & Co., the preeminent Japanese dealer at the time. Many patrons of the Museum also purchased artworks from the company that later came to the Met.

Yamanaka & Co.'s American story began in 1894, when Yamanaka Sadajirō (1866–1936) arrived in New York and set up a small antiques shop in Chelsea. In subsequent years, the Osaka-based purveyor of Japanese art established international branches in Boston, London, Peking (now Beijing), Paris, and Shanghai. In 1917, Yamanaka's New York gallery took over a five-story building on Fifth Avenue.

Beginning in 1915, when the Met's Department of Far Eastern Art was founded, curators often turned to Yamanaka to mediate the acquisition of art from Japan. Rare Buddhist sculptures, such as the thirteenth-century Amida Nyorai and the twelfth-century Dainichi Nyorai, were acquired through the intercession of the firm. Similarly, Yamanaka was instrumental in securing for the Museum the thirteenth-century handscroll Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine, one of the earliest surviving versions of this tale. During the 1950s and 1960s, the company continued to offer works to the Met, including the Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges) screens by Ogata Kōrin.


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