Reeds and Cranes, 19th century

  • Suzuki Kiitsu, Japanese, 1796-1858

Six-panel folding screen; color paint and gold on silk

  • Overall (fully open): 69 7/8 × 145 1/4 inches (177.5 cm × 3 m 68.9 cm) Installed (with 40" wide angles.): 68 7/8 × 122 × 15 inches (174.9 × 309.9 × 38.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Gerald W. Chamberlin Foundation, Inc., Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Endicott, Mrs. Howard J. Stoddard, Mr. Howard P. Stoddard, and Mr. and Mrs. Stanford C. Stoddard

79.28.2

Signed, lower left: Kiitsu

Stamp, lower left: Kiitsu [artist's seal]

(Klaus F. Naumann, Tokyo, Japan)

1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Yamane, Y., and Tsuji, N. Rimpa Kaiga Zenshu 5. Tokyo, 1978, no. 130 (ill. plates 145, 167-169). "Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement. Detroit News, April 14, 1985, p. 14 (ill.). 100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, p. 62, p. 63 (ill.). Mitchell, S.W. "The Asian Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts." Orientations 13, no. 5 (May 1982): pp. 14-36, fig. 13b. Emura, Tomoko. “Rinpa Artists and the Samurai Class.” Bulletin of the DIA 88, no. 1/4 (2014): pp. 80, 84 (figs. 16-18).

Suzuki Kiitsu, Reeds and Cranes, 19th century, six-panel folding screen; color paint and gold on silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Gerald W. Chamberlin Foundation, Inc., Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Endicott, et al., 79.28.2.