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Creative Commons License
Lady spies on a man writing nembutsu
ca. 1815-32 (late Edo)
Mulberry paper, pigments
(Japan and Korea )
(Japan and Korea )
Male role (Shuomaru?) played by Onoe Kikugoro III and female role (Shoji-musume Osato) played by Iwai Kumesaburo II. The man appears to be writing out the Buddhist incantation "Namu myoho renge kyo"
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.
Exhibitions
| 2018-2019 | Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Art of Collaboration. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| Treatment | examined for exhibition; re-housed; stabilized; surface cleaned | |
| 8/10/2018 | Treatment | examined for exhibition; loss compensation; stabilized; surface cleaned; tears repaired |
Geographies
Edo (Place of Origin)
Credit Line
Gift of Justine Lewis Keidel, 1991
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
95.542
