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Sea eagle beneath a pine tree on a rocky seashorefront, Cat. No. 12

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Sea eagle beneath a pine tree on a rocky seashore

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  • Description

    This textile may have been modelled on a painting. The signature ‘Tsunenobu’ may refer to the painter Kanō Tsunenobu (1636-1713), a nephew of the great master Kano Tanyū (1602-1674). Certainly, the gold background suggests the gold leaf typically used as backgrounds on folding screens or on the wall paintings and sliding screens of temples and grand mansions. As yet we know nothing about the Kyoto embroiderer Okamoto. (Exhibition number 12)

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Kyoto (place of creation)
    Europe (original location)
    Date
    late 19th century
    Meiji Period (1868 - 1912)
    Artist/maker
    Okamoto (active late 19th century) (embroiderer)
    possibly copyist of Kanō Tsunenobu (1636 - 1713) (artist)
    Material and technique
    silk, dyed, and embroidered with coloured silk (applied over dyed cotton wadding) and paper-backed gold foil wrapped around a silk or cotton core
    Dimensions
    77 x 114.8 cm (height x width)
    Material index
    silk,
    silk,
    cotton,
    cotton,
    gold,
    more
    Technique index
    woven,
    woven,
    dyed,
    dyed,
    embroidered,
    more
    Object type index
    textile,
    hanging,
    hanging
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Lent by the Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
    Accession no.
    LI1956.4

  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 9 November 2012-27 January 2013, Threads of Silk and Gold: Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, Clare Pollard, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 12 p. 105, illus. pp. 22 & 105

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