Attributed to Maejima Soyu (act. 16th century)

Possibly the wizard Zhao Zhenren (Choshinjin, or Choken)

Details

Attributed to Maejima Soyu (act. 16th century)
Possibly the wizard Zhao Zhenren (Choshinjin, or Choken)
Bearing seals Maejima and Soryu
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
20 3/8 x 13 5/8in. (51.6 x 34.7cm.)

Provenance

Kusaba Akira.
Mathias Komor, New York, November 1976.

Exhibited

Kanto-ha suibokuga ten (Eastern-school ink painting exhibition), Isetan Department Store, Shinjuku, Tokyo, September 1962, no. 23.

Nihon meisaku bijutsu ten: Yomiuri Shimbun Hokuriku hakkan sanshunen kinen (Exhibition of masterpieces of Japanese art: commemorating the third anniversary of the Yomiuri Shimbun in Hokuriku), Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art and Takaoka City Museum of Art, May--June 1964.

On loan: Tokyo National Museum, July 1962; March 1970 (cited in Tokyo National Museum monthly newsletters).

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Matsushita Takaaki, Muromachi suibokuga/Suiboku Painting of the Muromachi Period, vol. 1 (Tokyo: Muromachi Suibokuga Kankokai, 1960), no. 125.

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