29-96-687A
From: Japan | Nara | Kyoto | Buddhist Temple
Curatorial Section: Asian
| Object Number | 29-96-687A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Japanese | Buddhist |
| Provenience | Japan | Nara | Kyoto | Buddhist Temple |
| Creator | Yunen Ishida |
| Date Made | April 10, 1889 |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Paper |
| Technique | Printed |
| Iconography | Party | Dancing Girls | Musicians | Deer | Poem | Koto | Castanets | Flute | Cymbal |
| Inscription Language | Japanese Language |
| Description | Print. Scene is view of a party at Kasuga Shrine in Nara. Four dancing girls and four musicians with koto, castanets, flute and cymbal (?). Two nobles seated on the viewers right. Architecture rendered in detail. Landscape scene and figure of deer painted on wall paintings and screen paintings within the rooms.Tree and lanterns in left foreground. Japanese handwritten tanka, Japanese type of poem, written by Tadafusa Sugawara in cloud above scene. Heian style. Printed in Kyoto. |
| Height | 35.5 cm |
| Width | 42 cm |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Maxwell Sommerville, 1904 |
| Other Number | 13 - Other Number |
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