Unidentified Japanese Artist
Six-Panel Screen with New Year’s Scene
1700
Physical Qualities
Ink and color with gofun and gold leaf on paper, Framed: 17 7/8 x 34 3/8 in. (45.4 x 87.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dr. W. Lehman Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number
2011.363
Decorated with a New Year's street scene, with "kadomatsu" (bamboo and pine tied together to convey the wish for strength and longevity), in the middle four ladies holding "hanetsuki" paddles are engaged in a game of battledore and shuttlecock while two Manzai dancers perform at the upper left and two samurai come down the street from the right. Others passersby exchange holiday greetings.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2011; Dr. William Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
Artist
Unidentified Japanese Artist
