Fuyo (Mt. Fuji), circa 1800

Details

Minagawa Kien (1734-1807)
Fuyo (Mt. Fuji), circa 1800
Signed Kyosai, sealed Boho sakuhan
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
55¼ x 11¼in. (140.2 x 28.4cm.)

Literature

John M. Rosenfield with Fumiko E. Cranston, Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers, Vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999), pp. 183-84, no. 164.

Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield, Masters of Japanese Calligraphy: 8th-19th Century, exh. cat., (New York: Asia Society and Japan Society, 1984), no.125.

Exhibited

"Masters of Japanese Calligraphy: 8th-19th Century," at the Japan House Gallery and the Asia Society Galleries, New York Oct. 4, 1984-Jan. 6, 1985; at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Feb. 15-March 31, 1985; and at the Seattle Art Museum, May 9-July 14, 1985

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

The inscription had been translated as follows:

Of mountains in all the provinces
The greatest is called Fuyo.
Wild is the east. Waters soak the skies.
All alone it soars into the blue – beyond the heavens.
For a picture of Fuyo peak.

Translation by Fumiko E. Cranston from Extraordinary Persons, Vol. 2 (1999), p. 183.

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