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A PAGE OF CALLIGRAPHY FROM THE SHINKOKINSHU IN THE HAND OF THE EMPEROR GO-MIZUNO-O (1596-1680, r. 1611-29) REGISTERED AS A JUYO BIJUTSUHIN [IMPORTANT ART OBJECT]

EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

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A PAGE OF CALLIGRAPHY FROM THE SHINKOKINSHU IN THE HAND OF THE EMPEROR GO-MIZUNO-O (1596-1680, r. 1611-29)
REGISTERED AS A JUYO BIJUTSUHIN [IMPORTANT ART OBJECT]
Early Edo Period (17th Century)
Ink on decorated paper mounted in silk as a hanging scroll
6 x 6 1/8in. (15.2 x 15.6cm.)

Literature

Manno Art Museum, Manno korekushon senshu [Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection] (Osaka, Manno Kinen Bunka Zaidan, 1988), cat. no. 56

Exhibited

Registered as a Juyo bijutsuhin [Important Art Object] on 27 September 1940

Special notice

Prospective buyers of this lot should be aware that as an 'Important Art Object' this Lot cannot, as matters presently stand, leave Japan. Successful buyers are themselves responsible for registering their acquisition of the lot with the Cultural Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Japanese Government within 14 days of the date of the sale. This lot is subject to Japanese consumption tax at 5% on the hammer price and is zero rated for United Kingdom VAT.

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Prospective buyers of this Lot should be aware that as an 'Important Art Object' this Lot cannot, as matters presently stand, leave Japan. Successful buyers are themselves responsible for registering their acquisition of the Lot with the the Cultural Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Japanese Government within 14 days of the date of the sale. This Lot is subject to Japanese consumption tax at 5 on the hammer price and is zero rated for United Kingdom VAT

Lot Essay

Spurred on by the revival of classical culture that took place in Kyoto the early years of the Edo period, the learned Emperor Go-Mizuno-o - a keen student of both Chinese and Japanese literature - was especially fond of copying famous early verses and several shikishi [poem papers] from his hand are extant. The present poem comes from the second Spring section of Shinkokinshu [New Anthology of Poems Ancient and Modern], which was compiled around 1206, and reads:

Hana sasou
Hira no yamakaze
fukinikeri
kogiyuku fune no
ato miyuru made

Mount Hira's flower-
enticing winds blow down so
strongly on the lake
that the rowboats race along
leaving a wake behind them

For an example of a poem in the Japanese Imperial collection both composed and brushed by Emperor Go- Mizuno-o, see Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from the Imperial Collections (Washington, D.C., 1997), cat. no. 19.

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