RELICTREGISTRY · ELITE · LEGACY · ICONIC · COLLECTIONS
Sign InGet Started
Discover› Hasegawa Yasumasa (Japanese)› Playing the "Hand Game"
Back
Playing the "Hand Game"
The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
Museum

Playing the "Hand Game"

c. 1760
Hasegawa Yasumasa (Japanese) visual detail
ArtistHasegawa Yasumasa (Japanese)
View artist →
Medium
hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 39 x 55.3 cm (15 3/8 x 21 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Style
ASIAN - Hanging scroll
Origin
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Institution
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith

Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price—0 matched observed sales
Observed median—
Observed sales0
Artist index—
No rights-cleared normalized observed sale is attached to this artwork. No synthetic price history is shown.
Artist index unavailableNo completed public artist-index build exists.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.

Provenance

Public
? by 1968–?

Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI

Provenance event

(Dr. Richard Lane, Tokyo, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)

?–1985

The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–199...

1985–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Source provenance text

Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI (Dr. Richard Lane, Tokyo, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%

Sourced Overview Evidence

This scene depicts three people playing a game in which three players make hand gestures simultaneously. The relationship among the gestures determines the winner. Known as hand games, during the eighteenth century they were popular in Japan among courtesans. In this version, the contestants use both hands, indicating a special variation such as the fox hand game, which features gestures for a fox, a village leader, and a hunter.

The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%

Evidence state

0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 4 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.

Place Of OriginShort DescriptionProvenance TextExhibition HistoryCredit Line