Fans of the Twelve Months

Description In the Rimpa school of Japanese painting, a common subject was decoratively arranged fans. Hoshuku added individual twists to a formula perfected by Hoitsu (1761-1828), an artist four generations behind him in a lineage of master and pupil. One of a pair with 35.151.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/16/2003	Examination	examined for exhibition
1/07/2009	Examination	examined for exhibition
1/06/2010	Examination	examined for condition

Exhibitions

• Japanese Cloisonne Enamels from the Stephen W. Fisher Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2010.

Provenance Mami Yasukochi, Tokyo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by purchase.

Inscriptions [Date] early summer of Meiji year 40; [Signature] On right scroll: Hoshuku; [Seal] On right scroll: Koreitsu

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the Ambassador and Mrs. William J. Sebald Fund, 1990