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Bird on a Branch

Shiokawa Bunrin

Date unknown

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Tags

Birds

Dimensions

Image: 12 in. × 16 3/8 in. (30.5 × 41.6 cm) Overall with mounting: 53 1/4 × 23 1/4 in. (135.3 × 59.1 cm) Overall with knobs: 53 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (135.3 × 64.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936

Classification

Paintings

Department

Asian Art

Culture

Japan

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Rights

Public Domain

About Shiokawa Bunrin

1808–1877 • Tokugawa shogunate

Japanese, 1808–1877

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