Miscellaneous Paintings and Calligraphy for the Third Year of the Bunsei Era, Edo period (1615–1868), 1820, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 31 3/8 x 23 3/8 in. (79.7 x 59.4 cm), Paintings, Tani Bunchō (Japanese, 1763–1840), Watanabe Kazan (Japanese, 1793–1841), Sakai Hōitsu (Japanese, 1761–1828), sixty-six others (Japanese), A playful sampling of works by Edo's leading early nineteenth-century artists and literati is arranged here into irregular 'paving stones.' The many auspicious motifs and spring-themed poems suggest that this collection was made at the lunar New Year
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Miscellaneous Paintings, Calligraphy, Third Year, Bunsei Era, Edo period, 1615–1868, 1820, Japan, Hanging scroll, ink, color, paper, Image, 31 3/8 x 23 3/8, 79.7 59.4 cm, Paintings, Tani Bunchō, Japanese, 1763–1840, Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841, Sakai Hōitsu, 1761–1828, sixty-six others, playful, sampling, works, Edo, leading early, nineteenth-century, artists, literati, arranged, irregular, paving stones, auspicious motifs, spring-themed poems, suggest, collection, lunar New, Year
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