Nanga waterfallOkuhara Seiko (1837-1913)Ink on silkPainting: 135.5 x 35 cmMounts: 188 x 58The hanging scroll shows a literati landscape in the nanga manner, with a long inscription and signed with three seals. The scene is dominated by a steep mountain, on which a waterfall is pouring. The style is quite naturalistic and impressionistic. The technique used by the artist to represent the climbing vegetation and splashing waterfall is small dark spots that create the illusion of depth and dynamism. Color inks are added to the black one and create red and bluish shades that underline...
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Hanging scroll; ink on silk, 76 by 25 cm _Mounts 157,5 by 48 cm Signed: Seisei Kiitsu 菁々其一.Square relief seal: Shukurin 祝琳 Suzuki Kiitsu was the leading painter of the “Edo Rimpa” movement of artists active in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Born in Edo the son of a dyer, Kiitsu began his career as an apprentice to Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828) when he was eighteen. In the early 1800s Hōitsu had revived the style of Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716), mounting an exhibition of Kōrin’s paintings in 1815 to commemorate the centenary of his death. Hōitsu also produced...
肥前國佐賀住正廣Edo period, Circa 1640NBTHK Juyō Tōken MeasuresNagasa [lenght]: 70.2 cmMotohaba: 2.8 cm, sakihaba: 2 cmKasane [thickness]: 5.8 mmSori [curvature]: 1.82 cm Sugata [configuration]Shinogi-zukuri, koshi-zori, iori-mune, elongated chu-kissaki (3.6 cm) Kitae [forging pattern]Ko-itame hada with thick jinie and chikei Hamon [tempering pattern]: Nie-deki gunome and ō-gunome midare mixed to choji midare, the thick nioiguchi shows sunagashi, kinsuji, yo and ashi. Bōshi [point]Round at the end with hakikake kaeri Horimono [carvings]Bo-hi ni soe-bi....
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