Sand Nest (Sunasu no saku), from the series The Story of the Cormorant (Utô hangakan)

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Sand Nest (Sunasu no saku), from the series The Story of the Cormorant (Utô hangakan)

善知鳥版画巻　砂洲の柵

Munakata Shikô (Japanese, 1903–1975)

Japanese

Shôwa era

1961 (Shôwa 36) impression; block carved in 1938 (Shôwa 13)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print; ink on paper

Dimensions 25.4 x 25.4 cm (10 x 10 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Nancy Anderson Etani through the Nancy A. Etani Revocable Trust

Accession Number2009.2789

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Contemporary Art, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Statler, ed. Endo, Yomigaetta geijutsu (2009), pl. 56 (dated 1938); Nat'l Mus. of Mod. Art, Tokyo, Munakata Shikô ten (1985), #25-26; Statler, Modern J. Prints (1956), pl. 56 (dated 1938)

DescriptionNo. 26 of 31 images in the original series.

Signed Shikô (in Japanese), Munakata (in romanization, both in pencil in lower margin, with an additional inscription not yet read)
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ProvenanceBefore 2007, acquired in Japan from the Etani family by Mr. and Mrs. Kenji Etani; 2009, bequest of Mrs. Nancy Etani to the MFA. (Accession date: June 17, 2009)