AOIGAOKA KEISAI (ACTIVE 1820s-1830s)
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AOIGAOKA KEISAI (ACTIVE 1820s-1830s)

The Princess Kushinada

已結束2020年6月18日

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AOIGAOKA KEISAI (ACTIVE 1820s-1830s)
The Princess Kushinada
Woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigments and embossing
Signed Kesai
Privately issued for the Sugawara Poertry Group in 1832
Surimono, shikishiban: 20.5 x 18 cm. (8 1/8 x 7 1/8 in.)

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This is the right hand panel of a diptych depicting the princess Kushinada seated on a rock clasping a sutra scroll in her hands. Before her is a table supporting further scrolls, while two others have fallen to one side. A large silver wave cresting at the left, with the claw of the eight-headed dragon emmerging from behind it. Poems by Shoyotei Seiki, Chonintei Motoyori and Shakuyakutei.

The complete diptych is in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, accession no. 89.28.778, go to:
https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/9f7d74c2-2e48-4ee0-afd6-4b7dc9f9e026

The left sheet is illustrated in Roger Keyes, The Art of Surimono: Privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, (London, 1985) pg. 240, pl. 210.