Lot Essay
John Stevens has translated Fugai's inscription as follows: "How gaily he smiles! He cannot be compared to anyone around here. His worldliness has no taint of vulgarity. Truly a man of innate good fortune."
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Hotei
Details
Fugai Ekun (1568-C.1654)
Hotei
Inscribed and signed San tomo Fugai dojin, sealed Fugai
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
25 3/8 x 14¼in. (64.5 x 36.3cm.)
Box authentication by Mizoguchi Teijiro, former director of the Tokyo National Museum, 1926
Hotei
Inscribed and signed San tomo Fugai dojin, sealed Fugai
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
25 3/8 x 14¼in. (64.5 x 36.3cm.)
Box authentication by Mizoguchi Teijiro, former director of the Tokyo National Museum, 1926
Exhibited
Shirley Day Gallery, London, "400 years of Zen painting," 1976.12.8-18
PUBLISHED:
Okabe Hisashi, 400 years of Zen painting (London: Shirley Day Ltd., 1976), no.4.
PUBLISHED:
Okabe Hisashi, 400 years of Zen painting (London: Shirley Day Ltd., 1976), no.4.