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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Memorial Stone for Okakura Kakuzo at Echigo, Japan
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Memorial Stone for Okakura Kakuzo at Echigo, Japan

photographer
subject (Yokohama, 1862 - 1913, Akakura)
Date1913-1915
Place MadeJapan, East Asia
MediumGelatin silver print
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.008129
eMuseum ID717780
Other NumberARC.008129_0001
EmbARK ObjectID33895
Other NumberARC.008129_0003
TMS Source ID17373
Last Updated11/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryTomita Kojiro (1890-1976) sent this image to Isabella Stewart Gardner on December 13, 1915. The picture depicts the memorial stone that honored their mutual friend, Okakura Kakuzō (1862-1913) who died in Japan. Okakura worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as the curator of Japanese and Chinese art. He and Gardner were close friends from 1904 until his death.
MarksNotesInscribed in ink (verso): Okakura's Country House at / Akakura Hotsprings, Echigo / Stone inscription: The Place where Okakura Tenshin died 
ProvenanceNotesSent by curator and art historian Kojiro Tomita to Isabella Stewart Gardner, 13 December 1915. (ARC.005646)