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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Kokoro no koryu Chosen tsushinshi: Edo jidai kara 21 seikieno messeji /Korean missions to early-modern Japan: An appeal from the Edo period for Japanese-Korean friendship in the twenty-first century, exh. cat. (Kyoto: Kyoto Bunka hakubutsukan and Kyoto Shimbunsha, 2001), pl. 151.
Lee Bang-eon was an envoy to Japan in 1711. Because the calligraphy is written on a gold leaf ground it is assumed that it was written during this visit. Many examples of his writing have survived in Japan. The six characters mean that profit is not granted, but earned.
Kokoro no koryu Chosen tsushinshi: Edo jidai kara 21 seikieno messeji /Korean missions to early-modern Japan: An appeal from the Edo period for Japanese-Korean friendship in the twenty-first century, exh. cat. (Kyoto: Kyoto Bunka hakubutsukan and Kyoto Shimbunsha, 2001), pl. 151.
Lee Bang-eon was an envoy to Japan in 1711. Because the calligraphy is written on a gold leaf ground it is assumed that it was written during this visit. Many examples of his writing have survived in Japan. The six characters mean that profit is not granted, but earned.