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Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons


Shiki kachô zumaki
四季花鳥図巻
Kano Tanshin Morimasa (Japanese, 1653–1718)
Japanese
Edo period
latter half of the 17th - first half of the 18th centuries

Medium/Technique One of a pair of handscrolls; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions Image: 38.5 x 675 cm (15 3/16 x 265 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.6708
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. I (Kano), no. 51(1)
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.