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Bamboo and Sparrows
Bamboo and Sparrows
Bamboo and Sparrows

Bamboo and Sparrows

Date17th century
GeographyJapan
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionsgeneral: 71 × 70 in. (180.3 × 177.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Anna Rice Cooke, 1933 (3876)
Object number3876
DescriptionOne of seven panels painted in sumi-e on paper. Wash and line painting on grey ground. Six dominant bamboo uprights and several more delicate stalks as though in the distance. Four birds at left of center. Sparse bamboo leaves at upper left and to left of center. Framed in black.
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