A CONTEMPORARY ORIBE STYLE DISH (NAGABACHI)

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A CONTEMPORARY ORIBE STYLE DISH (NAGABACHI)
(20TH CENTURY), SIGNED RO [KITAOJI ROSANJIN (1883-1959)]

Of rectangular shape with slightly curved sides and shallow well and resting on a flat base, decorated in Oribe style in thick glazes of blue and olive and inscribed in black enamel with the poem Haru kitari kusa onozukara umaru "grasses spontaneously sprout as spring comes", signed on the base in katakana, Ro--9 1/4 x 15in. (23.5 x 38cm.), in tomobako inscribed Oribe haru kitaru kusa onozukara umaru (translated as above) nagabachi (long dish) and signed in katakana, Ro

Lot Essay

For a painting in ink by Rosajin with the identical poetic inscription in his hand see Shirasaki Hideo. Kitaoji Rosanjin sakuhin zuroku [Works of Kitaoji Rosanjin] (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1972), no. 149. A slightly smaller nagabachi was exhibited in Rosanjin, Japan House Gallery, Japan Society, New York, 1972, exh. cat., pl. 65.