Album of Letters and Sketches, with Poet Portrait as frontispiece (28 pages) / Sakai Hôitsu
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- Accession Number
- 1968/2.55
- Title
- Album of Letters and Sketches, with Poet Portrait as frontispiece (28 pages)
- Artist
- Sakai Hôitsu
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1761-1828
- Medium and Support
- album, ink, color and gold leaf on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1800-1828
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Kanto (region)
- Tokyo (metropolis)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Kanto (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Tokyo (metropolis)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Rimpa
- Dimensions
- 44.93 cm x 29.85 cm (17 11/16 in. x 11 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- album
- Physical Description
- An album of 28 pages. Cover is brown with a faded image at the center, possibly of leaves on an off-white background. The inside of the album primarily contains hand-written text, though some of the text has faded images in the background, and some of the pages are completely images. The first page depicts a seated man in formal attire. and across from him is a seperate painting of a landscape with green mountains. Other images contained within are of various topics with various colors and styles.
- Subject Matter
- This twenty-seven leaf album contains letters, drafts of poems, and some sketches by Sakai Hôitsu. Many of the letters are addressed to his assistants, giving them detailed painting instructions, sometimes with sketches, and reminding them of their deadlines.
- Primary Keywords
- album leaf
- albums
- bamboo
- birds
- calligraphy
- cherry tree
- deer
- designs
- fans (costume accessories)
- figures
- flowers
- gold
- grasses
- japan
- lutes
- mount fuji
- mountains
- ocean
- pines
- poetry
- rocks
- trees
- waves
- willows
- Secondary Keywords
- allegory and literature
- animals
- artistic concepts
- asia
- asian
- associated concepts
- business and industry
- concepts in the arts
- concepts relating to the creative process
- costume
- costume accessories
- costume accessories carried
- descriptors
- forms
- genres
- geography
- inorganic material
- locality
- making art
- mammals
- materials
- materials by composition
- mine
- musical instruments
- objects
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- plants
- sketches
- text-based art
- the natural world
- waterscapes
- Rights
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1392 x 932
- File Size
- 112 KB
- Record
- 1968/2.55
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"Album of Letters and Sketches, with Poet Portrait as frontispiece (28 pages); Sakai Hôitsu." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1968-sl-2.55/1968_2.55cov.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.