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Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

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Date: first half 16th century
Medium: Hanging scroll, ink on paper
Department: Asian Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID: 40036

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This painting depicts seven scholars from third-century China gathered near a mountain stream and grove of bamboo. Four scholars chat at right while three at left admire a waterfall. Artists began creating images of the so-called “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove” as early as the fourth century in China and by the ninth century in Japan. Little is known about the painter of this work, whose seal was once impressed at lower left and later scratched away. His style, however, is similar to that of a circle of painters active in eastern Japan in the vicinity of Kamakura during the late Muromachi period. Asia

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Credit line: Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation

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