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Waves at Matsushima 松島図屏風
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About this work
The brilliant paintings on this pair of folding screens are regarded as masterpieces among only six surviving sets of screens by Sotatsu, a talented and innovative artist who headed a painting workshop known as Tawaraya. As a townsman, Sotatsu produced paintings such as fans for popular consumption. By the late 1620s, however, Sotatsu was painting for the imperial court, and his works survive in the collections of the Kyoto imperial palace. For his artistic merit, he was granted the honorary Buddhist ecclesiastical title Hokkyo (Bridge of the Law), which is included in his signature on these screens.
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Credit lineWaves at Matsushima 松島図屏風. 17th century. Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643). National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.
