Outside the Bamboo Screen, circa 1849

Details

Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863)
Outside the Bamboo Screen, circa 1849
Signed Suo, sealed Betsuyu tenchi hijinkan, Tekisu roho and Kaikyaku ikkyo
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
41 x 9½in. (104.2 x 24.0cm.)

Literature

John M. Rosenfield with Fumiko E. Cranston, Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers, Vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999), pp. 213-14, no. 176.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

This poem has been translated:

Outside the bamboo screen faintly seen
In the moonlight scooping water from the well –
The colleague of my writing studio.
We debate about tea, then speak of meditation.

Translation by Fumiko E. Cranston from Extraordinary Persons, Vol. 2 (1999), p. 213.

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