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Collections

Soga Shōhaku
Oxen and Herdboys1760s

Not on view
Six-panel ink-wash folding screen depicting two children and two bulls, one standing and one reclining, painted with bold gestural brushwork on cream paper
Six-panel folding screen with ink painting of three bulls and a child figure perched in a gnarled tree; dark bull at right faces two lighter bulls at center-left, rendered in fluid brushwork with ink wash shading on a pale ground; vertical columns of Japanese or Chinese calligraphy and a red seal at upper left.
Artist or Maker
Soga Shōhaku
Japan, 1730-1781
Title
Oxen and Herdboys
Date Made
1760s
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Pair of six-panel screens; ink on paper
Dimensions
[each] Image: 65 5/8 × 147 1/2 in. (166.69 × 374.65 cm) [each] Mount: 71 1/4 × 153 1/4 × 3/4 in. (180.98 × 389.26 × 1.91 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the 2016 Collectors Committee, with additional funds provided by Janet and Marvin Jubas, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and Irene Christopher
Accession Number
M.2016.220a-b
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Singer, Robert T., and Kawai Masatomo, editors. The Life of Animals in Japanese Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2019.