Abstract
IN THE Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is a landscape screen painting which has been attributed to Shubun of the fifteenth century, to Toeki of the early seventeenth century, and lastly to Unkoku Togan, the father of Toeki. In order to establish this last attribution I had photographs taken of paintings at Obai-in, a sub-temple of Daitoku-ji temple in Kyoto. At Obai-in three rooms are usually attributed to this master of the Momoyama period. One room is of geese, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, and one of Chinese landscapes. All are in the ink style, and prove the excellence of this artist in the three types of subject matter most often practiced by an artist in the Far East. The paintings are unsigned, but the attribution of them to Togan is of long standing and such a scholar as Mr. Seiichi Taki speaks of the attribution as not being open to any doubt. In the study of Japanese art there are not yet in Western publications enough photographic details to enable one really to feel the brushwork o...
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