Cranes
Artist
Sakai, Hoitsu
(Japanese, 1761–1828)
Dateearly 19th century
Mediumink, watercolor, and gold on paper
Dimensions143.5 x 143.3 cm (56 1/2 x 56 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineCharlotte E.W. Buffington Fund
Object number1964.9
DescriptionTokugawa PeriodLabel TextIn their arrangement of two-dimensional forms on the picture surface and dramatic use of a gold ground, Hoitsu and his pupils are truly heirs to the great tradition of Japanese decorative painting. Born in Edo (modern Tokyo) into a wealthy samurai family, Hoitsu experimented with a variety of idioms before finally taking up the Rimpa style of Ogata Korin (1658-1716). He was responsible for a Rimpa revival in nineteenth-century Edo, and he published two woodblock-printed books on Korin, including the Korin hyakuzu (One hundred paintings of Korin) in 1815. This two-panel screen is virtually a "quotation" from a pair by Korin at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Hoitsu's work, however, is less naturalistic than the painting on which it is based.Provenance(Alice Boney [1901-1988], Tokyo and New York, NY); 1964, purchased by the Worcester Art Museum.
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