Portrait of a Court Noble (Emperor Kazan?), from an untitled album of prints from the Thirty-three Kannon Temples of the Saigoku Pilgrimage Route

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Portrait of a Court Noble (Emperor Kazan?), from an untitled album of prints from the Thirty-three Kannon Temples of the Saigoku Pilgrimage Route

西国三十三所おふだ帖　公家の肖像　（花山天皇ヵ）

Artist unknown, Japanese

Japanese

Edo period

19th century

Medium/Technique Hand colored and with gold

Dimensions Album page: 26 x 25.3 cm (10 1/4 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr.

Accession NumberRES.60.14.1

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFrom an album of 33 small prints and two paintings, RES.60.14.1-35. The prints appear to have been collected from each of the temples on the pilgrimage route; embellished with colors and metallic pigments, probably in a professional workshop; and then gathered together into an album. The small paintings of a priest at the end of the album and a courtier at the beginning may represent respectively Tokudô Shônin, who established the pilgrimage route in the 8th century, and Emperor Kazan, who rediscovered it in the 10th century; or they may represent a priest and a patron closer in time to the compilation of the album.

Signed Unsigned
無款

ProvenanceBy 1932, Robert Treat Paine, Jr. (b. 1900 - d. 1965), Cambridge, MA [see note]; 1960, gift of Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession date: November 9, 1960)

NOTE: Lent by Robert Treat Paine, Jr. to the MFA in 1932.