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19c Rengetsu Nun Pottery Mizusashi
poem browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1900: item # 78051
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| Dating 19c. 6” tall, 5” across, excellent condition, no damage, accompanied by a tomobako storage box. Mizusashi signed on the body, “Rengetsu”. Known as "Rengetsu" meaning "Lotus-moon", she lived from 1791-1875 and is listed in "A Dictionary of Japanese Artists" as a Shijo painter, calligrapher, talented poet and potter. Her poems were characteristically incised in her pottery, the most common form of cups modeled in the form of lotus. She became a Buddhist nun after her husband's death and her adopted son was the famous calligrapher Tessai. She was prolific and inspired many imitators. A Japanese researcher on Rengetsu attributes this jar as authentic. The jar is hand modeled, incised with poetry, and the unglazed sections impressed with a textile. Box reads, right section: Otagaki Rengetsu Ni (name, ni means nun), Kugibori waka iri mizusashi (kugi a writing tool, bori written with; waka is a poem, hakaji is the glaze). Left section is the former owner’s information. | ||
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