WATANABE KAZAN (1793-1841)*

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WATANABE KAZAN (1793-1841)*

Drinking tea in a ravine

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 125.5 x 55 cm., dated Tsuchinoe inu roku-gatsu tsuitachi to-ka "1838, 6th month, 10th day", signed Kazan-Gaishi Noboru, sealed Kazan and Noboru, mounted on brocade, in inscribed wood box in chitsu, in inscribed wood box and in wood outer box
Literature
Published in Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Watanabe Kazan-ten (February-March 1984), fig. 32; Kazan exhibition executive office, ed., Kazan Meisaku-ten Aichi Prefecture, Tawara Bunka kaikan (April-May 1985), fig. 67 and text p. 122

Lot Essay

This monumental painting is dated the year before Kanzan was arrested on false charges of conspiracy and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to house arrest, but Kazan committed suicide two years later.