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Birds in Trees


Saru taka zu byobu
猿鷹図屏風
Formerly attributed to: Sesshû Tôyô (Japanese, 1420–1506)
Japanese
Edo period
17th–18th centuries

Medium/Technique One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper
Dimensions 160.6 x 353.2 cm (63 1/4 x 139 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4140
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. VI (Ink ptg.), no. 22 (2)
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of the Kii branch of the Tokugawa family; prior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum.