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Collections

Geiai
Birds amid Plum and Bamboocirca 1550-1600

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Japanese hanging scroll, ink on silk, depicting plum branches with small buds, flying and perched birds, and a quail on the ground, with soft gray ink wash and gold brocade mounting
Ink work on aged paper with bold, sweeping diagonal brushstrokes in dark brown and black across a mottled beige ground, with red Chinese seal script characters and calligraphic text visible at center.

Geiai, Birds amid Plum and Bamboo, circa 1550-1600, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of C. Gregory Walsh, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Geiai
Japan, active 1489-early 16th century
Title
Birds amid Plum and Bamboo
Culture
Oguri School
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1550-1600
Period
Muromachi period (1392-1573) or Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1603) or Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 44 1/4 x 20 5/8 in. (112.4 x 52.39 cm); Mount: 79 1/8 x 25 5/8 in. (200.98 x 65.09 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of C. Gregory Walsh
Accession Number
AC1998.45.1
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.
  • Lippit, Yukio. "Discovering Geiai." Orientations 53, no.2 (2022): 78-86.