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Letter to Suganuma Sadayoshi


菅織部正様
Hon'ami Kôetsu (Japanese, 1558–1637)
Japanese
Edo period
1625

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 28.3 x 46.4 cm (11 1/8 x 18 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto
Accession Number2014.1500
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsCalligraphy

Signed Tokuyûsai Kôetsu
Marks cipher (kao)
Provenance1625, sent by the artist to Suganuma Sadayoshi (b. 1587 - d. 1643), Omi Province (modern-day Shiga Prefecture). By 1964, Tabata Kihachi (b. 1908 - d. 1983), Kyoto. October 29, 2000, sold by Takashi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts (gallery), Kyoto, to Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA; 2014, gift of Sylvan Barnet and the estate of William Burto to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 29, 2014)