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Collections

Watanabe Shikō
Old Plum TreesEdo period, 18th century

Not on view
Six-panel folding screen, ink wash on cream ground, showing a gnarled tree with budding branches, bamboo, and birds in flight

Watanabe Shikō, Old Plum Trees, Edo period, 18th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Frederick R. Weisman Company, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Watanabe Shikō
Japan, 1683-1755
Title
Old Plum Trees
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
Edo period, 18th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
One from a pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
Dimensions
65 1/2 × 146 1/2 in. (166.37 × 372.11 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Frederick R. Weisman Company
Accession Number
M.76.21.4.1a
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Y¯uzo, Yamane. Genshoku Nihon no bijutsu: S¯otatsuro k¯orin. Tokyo, Japan: Shogakkan, 1969.
  • Toshio, Ebine; Masatomo, Kawai; Motoaki, Kono. Nihon suiboku meihin zufu. Tokyo, Japan: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1993.