YASHIMA GAKUTEI (1786?-1868)
拍品 86

YASHIMA GAKUTEI (1786?-1868)

Brush (Fude): Ono no Tofu

已結束2020年6月18日

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GBP 875

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YASHIMA GAKUTEI (1786?-1868)
Brush (Fude): Ono no Tofu
From the series The Four Friends of the Writing Desk for the Ichiyo Circle (Ichiyoren bunbo shiyu)
Woodblock print, surimono, embellished with metallic pigments and embossing
Signed Gakutei
Meiji period reprint, circa 1880s
Shikishiban surimono: 20.8 x 18.2 cm. (8 ¼ x 7 ¼ in.)

專家說明

The famous aristocratic calligrapher Ono no Tofu pauses to look back over his shoulder towards the viewer, having just written calligraphy onto a large paper layed on a low table.

The image is set within a broad border of cracked ice, plum blossoms. and a triple bun (literature) character forming a circle (the symbol of the Katsushika group of poets, of which the Ichiyo group was a sub-division). Gakutei selected pairs of Chinese and Japanese subjects for the four "friends" of writing; paper, ink, brush and inkstone, thus the total in the series is eight.

An impression of the 1828 surimono is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. JP1133, go to: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/60025481