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Kacho zu
花鳥図
Long-tailed Bird and Peony
Kacho zu
花鳥図
Kano Tan'yû (Japanese, 1602–1674)
Japanese
Edo period
latter half of the 17th century
Medium/Technique
One of a set of three hanging scrolls;ink and color on silk; endknobs are lacquered plain wood
Dimensions
Overall ((with jiku and hanging braid)): 128 × 47.9 cm (50 3/8 × 18 7/8 in.)
Image: 38.3 × 29.9 cm (15 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Image: 38.3 × 29.9 cm (15 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4397
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Catalogue Raisonné
Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. I (Kano), no. 36(1)
Signed
Tanyusai
ProvenanceBefore 1886, acquired in Japan by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 - d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 - d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)