Ivy vines, bridges and floating fans 蔦の細道扇面流図屏風
early 17th century
- Medium
- Ink, color, gold, and silver on paper
- Dimensions
- 170 × 381 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-124125
The image of painted fans spilling off from a bridge into a stream evokes the memory of the legendary journey made by a fifteenth-century shogun traveling from the center of Kyoto to an outlying temple. While crossing a bridge, one of the shogun's servants accidentally dropped his master's fan into the rushing water below. Struck by the sudden poignant reminder of beauty's fragility and fleeting …
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- early 17th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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