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Momoyama period Kaiho Yusho School Scroll, Seikan browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Paintings: Pre 1700: item # 1172178 Please refer to our stock # ALR4141 when inquiring.
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An egret stands stone-like on a rock among dried autumn grasses on this Yusho-school ink painting dating from the Momoyama to early Edo period with an inscription by important Zen priest Seikan Bunei. The scene is performed with ink on paper and contained in and Edo period green border extended in raw silk with solid bone rollers. The scroll measures 23 x 72 1/2 inches (58.5 x 197 cm). There has been extensive restoration to the paper performed when the scroll was mounted. There is some wear to the cloth and looseness to the lower border extension. Judging by the wear I believe this was once mounted on a screen. Seikan Bunei (1568-1621) was a powerful Zen monk of the Momoyama period favored by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Born Nakao Shigetada in Ise-kuni, he spent his life in the turbulent and ever changing world of the warring states. Picked up by the famous warlord Kato Kiyomasa he was sent to Kyushu, performing admirably, and becoming a trusted advisor to the Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In 1600 he was appointed the 227th head of Tofukuji Temple, and later Nanzenji edifices of Zen Buddhism at the time, and was at the center of a controversy in 1614 over the inscription on a bell at Hokoji temple, and ritual suicide looked imminent. It was this incident which gave foundation for the attacks on Osaka castle, culminating in the seizure of power by the Tokugawa family and heralding 250 years of dynastic rule. Kaiho Yusho (1533-1615) was born into a samurai family of the Azai clan of Omi (modern day Shiga) but was sent to Tofukuji temple in Kyoto. It is rumored that he studied under Kano Motonobu. In 1573he was thus spared the fate of the rest of his family, killed in battle with Oda Nobunaga. Following this he left Tofukuji and began life as an artist. He would become much favored with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and would count the Imperial family in his list of patrons. |
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