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Antique Japanese Gajo Book of Paintings, Kodojin browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Paintings: Pre 1920: item # 843660 Please refer to our stock # MOR2509 when inquiring.
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| Alternating pages of paintings and calligraphy show the mastery of brush for which Kodojin is known. Elegant running cursive lines and strict crisp characters extol virtues between seasonal imagery. The scene of medaka fish is particularly compelling in its freshness and sense of life while the stark ancient pine is unmistakably Kodojin. The snail in soft color is quite an unusual scene signed with his poetic name Haritsu. The book is covered in sea blue satin with a signed dark blue sleeve in a custom kiri-wood box. Each page is 12 by 7-1/2 inches (30 x 19.5 cm) with some faint scattered foxing on some pages. Kodojins status as a poet calligrapher and literati artist has reached legendary status. Born at a time of great change (4 years before the final fall of the Edo Government, he lived through the westernization of the Meiji, Taisho Democracy, and rise to Imperialism and defeat of the Showa era. He was self taught, part of a small group of artists existing outside conventional circles in pre-war Japan. Taking the time just before his death to destroy the large portion of his remaining own work, leaving only that which must have met some personal criteria. For more on his life see the book Old Taoist, or Unexplored Avenues of Japanese Painting. His work also was recently presented for exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and is part of the Hakutakuan collection among many others. | |||||||||||||||
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