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Benzaiten, the Goddess of Music and Good Fortune


弁才天像
Sumiyoshi Hirokata (Japanese, 1835–1883)
Japanese
Edo period
19th century

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions Image: 115.4 x 50.6 cm (45 7/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4553
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. II (Tosa, Sumiyoshi, Revival Yamato-e), no. 45
ProvenancePrior 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