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Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841) - Hanging Scroll
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Pre 1837 VR item# 1095593 (stock# 795)
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Hanging Scroll by Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)
Origin: Japan
Period: Edo Period
Material: Ink on paper
Size: H: 50.6cm; L: 58cm
Flower and rock arragement, signed Kazan Gaishi Noboru; sealed Noboru and Watanabe Noboru.
Apart from his great reputation as a painter Watanabe Kazan was equally known as a pioneer in Western studies in Japan and as
a cultural and national hero who was forced to commit suicide by
the Tokugawa government in 1841. Kazan first studied painting
with Kaneko Kinryo (1756-1817) and then with Tani Buncho
(1763-1840) and showed an endless curiosity and willingness to
try new styles and methods.
The mounting appears to date from the mid to late 19th century, and the painting is worn in a manner which indicates it was unmounted for some time before this was applied or removed and remounted here.
Two collector's seals on the back of the mounting.
Mounting: 128.5 x 63.5 cm
Wooden box
Reference:
On Watanabe Kazan, see: Dombrady, Géza Siegfried: Watanabe Kazan, ein
japanischer Gelehrter des 19. Jahrhunderts, Hamburg (Gesellschaft für
Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens) 1968.
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Otagaki Rengetsu & Kuroda Koryo - Pair of Sake Cups
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Pre 1900 item# 1080043 (stock# R1549)
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Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) & Kuroda Koryo (1823-1895)
Sake Cups (Guinomi), pair
Glazed ceramic
H: 4.3 cm (1 2/3 inch), D: 6.7 cm (2 2/3 inch)
Poems:
impossible to read
For similar cups, see:
Black robe white mist: art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu, National Gallery of Australia exhibition catalogue, Melanie Eastburn, Lucie Folan, Robyn Maxwell (ed.), 2007, no.8, ill.p.12.
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Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) - Pair of Sake Cups
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Pre 1900 item# 1080038 (stock# R1186)
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Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Sake Cups (Guinomi), pair
Glazed ceramic
H: 4.3 cm (1 2/3 inch), D: 6.7 cm (2 2/3 inch)
Poem:
1 At dawn in Osumi,
a cuckoo cries
among the green
dew-covered leaves.
2 Just as the moon sinks,
a single mountain cuckoo
cries in the silence.
On Rengetsu, see:
Black robe white mist: art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu, National Gallery of Australia exhibition catalogue, Melanie Eastburn, Lucie Folan, Robyn Maxwell (ed.), 2007.
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Gathered Writings (Yosegaki), seven Artists
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Pre 1920 item# 1001168 (stock# 788)
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Japan, Showa Period - c. 1940
ink on paper
H: 65 cm, W: 33.2 cm
This painting was done by seven different artists. It appears that they are all in their 60s doing this in what is referred to as Kanreki - the 60th year being an auspicious year.
Right top: woman standing with a bird tied from a pole by Eiji
Below: In morning and evening, serve the gods with vigor.
You attain
The celebrations of your sixtieth birthday.
by Asako (or Chôshi)
Middle top: Celebrate Mr. Takagi’s sixtieth birthday
High atop Mt. Fuji
Left top: On a snowy night (?), you have reached sixty,
You are comparable to a green pine green at eighty.
Tôkô
Left middle: Spring is still early
Until the sixtieth birthday
There are still five or six years left.
Seal: Shôkô (or Koharu?) (not clearly identifiable)
Right bottom: Môku, seal
Passing over sixty years, boyish-face is red
(with) a red hood.
Middle bottom: Surrouded in virtue of the sixtieth birthday in the garden of the gods.
seal: unidentifiable (Kinshuku Ukô)
Respectfully celebrate, [by] Ukô
Left bottom:Congratulations on your sixtieth birthday Mr. Takagi, [by] Akito
At an age close to that when old people are discarded
Your precious body is an offering to the gods.
Gathered writings (yosegaki): a collection of autographs with some drawings, poems and phrases by several people on a sheet of paper or fabric, or in a blank book. It is generally done to commemorate a wedding, major birthday, graduation or send off.
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