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Collections

Gochō Kankai
One Silence Like a Clap of Thunderlate18th - early 19th century

Not on view
Vertical hanging scroll with bold black ink calligraphy in expressive cursive script, a radiating ink-splash mark near the top, and two red seal stamps on cream paper
Hanging scroll with bold Japanese calligraphy in black ink on cream paper, featuring large expressive brushstrokes at right and a vertical column of smaller cursive script at left, with two red seal impressions at lower left.
Detail of aged paper with a red oval collector's seal bearing Chinese seal script characters, with scattered black ink spots near the lower edge.
Artist or Maker
Gochō Kankai
Japan, 1749-1835
Title
One Silence Like a Clap of Thunder
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late18th - early 19th century
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 49 1/8 x 11 3/8 in. (124.7 x 28.8 cm); Mount: 80 x 12 1/2 in. (203.2 x 31.8 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the 1988 Collectors Committee
Accession Number
M.88.84
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Fischer, Felice; Goodall, Hollis; Kiyoko, Kakeya; Masamoto, Kawai; Singer, Robert T. Munakata Shik¯o: Japanese Master of the Modern Print. Kamakura, Japan: Munakata Museum, 2002.