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Lot Essay
Minagawa Kien (1734-1807), who inscribed this painting, was a leading Confucian scholar in Kyoto and maintained a close relationship with Maruyama Okyo. Alongside Kimura Kenkado (1736–1802), the influential scholar and art collector, and Daiten Kenjo (1718–1801), a Rinzai Zen monk at Shokokuji Temple in Kyoto, Kien was among Okyo’s most important intellectual supporters.
The inscription by Kien on this painting reads and can be translated:
活々溪流碧濆淪小鱗上
泝動如銀向来観玩忘
圖畫宛是嵐山三月春
In the lively stream, clear and green with eddies, tiny fish glint across the surface. Swimming upstream, flashing like silver, they captivate the eye until one forgets oneself. – Arashiyama in the Spring of the third month.
The inscription by Kien on this painting reads and can be translated:
活々溪流碧濆淪小鱗上
泝動如銀向来観玩忘
圖畫宛是嵐山三月春
In the lively stream, clear and green with eddies, tiny fish glint across the surface. Swimming upstream, flashing like silver, they captivate the eye until one forgets oneself. – Arashiyama in the Spring of the third month.