ATTRIBUTED TO KANO SANSETSU (1589-1651), WITH INSCRIPTION BY SUGAWARA SHOKO (1586-1666)

PORTRAIT OF THE MONK FUGA

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ATTRIBUTED TO KANO SANSETSU (1589-1651), WITH INSCRIPTION BY SUGAWARA SHOKO (1586-1666)
Portrait of the Monk Fuga
Hanging scroll; ink on paper, mounted on brocade, framed and glazed
Inscribed with a twenty-eight character Chinese poem and signed in part Kozan dojin Shoko, with two seals, one reading Shoko and with certificate from Heizando, Shiba Koen, Tokyo, dated 30 December 1965
52 x 11in. (135 x 29.3cm.) excl. frame

拍場告示

The lot illustrated as lot 26 is in fact lot 27.

拍品專文

Kano Sansetsu was head of the second generation of the Kyoto branch of the Kano School of painters. Sugawara Shoko (1586-1666) was 169th abbot of the great Zen temple of Daitokuji in Murasakino, Kyoto. Originally from Edo, he became a priest in 1625 and was given the title Bukkai Soto Zenshi by order of the Emperor Gomizuno-o. He was renowned for his calligraphy [see 1 below].

1. Sawada Akira, Nihon gaka jiten [A dictionary of Japanese painters] (Kyoto, 1926,1974), 276.