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Ogata Kenzan
Plates with Poems and Paintings of the Twelve Lunar Monthsearly 18th century

Not on view
Set of twelve small ink-wash panels on cream silk or paper, each depicting a nature scene with birds, trees, water, and mountains in gray, taupe, and occasional color
Set of twelve small square album leaves arranged in a three-by-four grid, each decorated with pale blue ink wash suggesting mist or water, overlaid with columns of cursive Japanese calligraphy in black ink.

Ogata Kenzan, Plates with Poems and Paintings of the Twelve Lunar Months, early 18th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Japan Business Association and the Far Eastern Art Council, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ogata Kenzan
Japan, 1663-1743
Title
Plates with Poems and Paintings of the Twelve Lunar Months
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
early 18th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Earthenware with underglaze iron and overglaze enamels
Dimensions
each: 1/2 × 8 × 7 in. (1.27 × 20.32 × 17.78 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Japan Business Association and the Far Eastern Art Council
Accession Number
M.84.64.1-.12
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Brown, Kendall; Kamens, Edward; Nagata, Helen, Mitsu; Neill, Mary Gardner; Ulak, James T.; Wheelwright, Carolyn. Word in Flower: the Visualization of Classical Literature in Seventeenth- Century Literature. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1989
  • Singer, Robert T., and Kawai Masatomo, editors. The Life of Animals in Japanese Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2019.