DepartmentAsia
Tengu in Flight
NameHanging Scroll painting
CultureJapanese
DateLate Edo period (no later than 1869)
Place madeJapan, East Asia, Asia
MediumSilk, paint, wood
Dimensions55 13/16 × 13 3/8 × 1 in. (141.75 × 34 × 2.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, museum purchase, A.2017.89.1
Object numberA.2017.89.1
DescriptionLong rectangular scroll with wood at the bottom edge, scroll depicts rectangular painting of a "Tengu" crow figure in flight admist dark forest background with katana at its side, painting has green rectangular border
late Edo - early Meiji Periods (no later than 1879)
Meiji period (circa 1910)
1927
