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Owl on a Pine Branch
Soga Nichokuan (Japanese, active mid-17th century)
early 17th century
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- Image: 45 3/16 x 20 3/16 in. (114.8 x 51.2 cm) Overall with mounting: 81 5/16 x 21 1/8 in. (206.5 x 53.7 cm) Overall with knobs: 22 13/16 in. (58 cm)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art
- Credit line
- Fishbein-Bender Collection, Gift of T. Richard Fishbein and Estelle P. Bender, 2012
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed