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Fowls Under a Banana Tree


Basho niwatori zu byôbu
芭蕉鶏図屏風
Soga Shôhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781)
Japanese
Edo period
1770s

Medium/Technique Two-panel folding screen; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions Image: 150.5 x 174.4 cm (59 1/4 x 68 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4515
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. IV (Shôhaku, Jakuchû), no. 15
ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum