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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Tokyo
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Tokyo

correspondent (Yokohama, Japan, 1868 - 1936)
subject (Yokohama, 1862 - 1913, Akakura)
subject (Kolkata, India, 1861 - 1941, Kolkata, India)
Date6 January 1917
Place MadeTokyo, Tokyo, Japan, East Asia
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.004313
eMuseum ID728930
EmbARK ObjectID30270
TMS Source ID13852
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryArt historian and philosopher Okakura Kakuzō adapted the Japanese legend of Kuzunoha into a libretto for an opera, “The White Fox.” He dedicated it to Isabella who displayed the manuscript in the Okakura Case in the Blue Room. In this letter, Okakura’s brother Yoshisaburo informing Gardner that the polymath and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) wished to have the work published.
BibliographyNotesAdam Haliburton, "The Elusive White Fox by Okakura Kakuzō," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 19 December 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/elusive-white-fox-okakura-kakuzo
MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (bottom right): [Y. Okakura]
Inscribed in pencil (bottom right): [Y.Okakura 1/16/17]