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Long-Tailed Bird on Flowering Crabapple


Kaidô ni onaga zu
海棠に尾長図
Kano Tan'yû (Japanese, 1602–1674)
Japanese
Edo period
latter half of the 17th century

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions 95.5 x 35.5 cm (37 5/8 x 14 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.6723
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #50; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. I (Kano), no. 41
Signed Tan'yûsai hitsu
Marks Morinobu; Tan'yu
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.