Studio of Tawaraya Sotatsu (first half 17th Century)
Studio of Tawaraya Sotatsu (first half 17th Century)

Utsusemi (The Shell of the Locust), a scene from Chapter 3 of the Tale of Genji

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Studio of Tawaraya Sotatsu (first half 17th Century)
Utsusemi (The Shell of the Locust), a scene from Chapter 3 of the Tale of Genji
Fragment of a folding screen mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, color, silver, gold and gold leaf on paper
11 3/8 x 14 3/8in. (29 x 36.5cm.)
Wooden storage box signed and inscribed by Yasuda Yukihiko (1884-1978)
Provenance
Fujii family

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Yamane Yuzo, ed., Sotatsu ha 1 (Sotatsu school, vol.1), in Rinpa kaiga zenshu (Collected Rinpa Paintings), vol. 1 (Tokyo: Nihon keizai shinbunsha, 1979), p. 239, no. 7.
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, ed., Rinpa sakuhin/The World of Rin-pa School (Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 1985), p. 83, no. 6.
Murashige Yasushi, ed., Rinpa daiyonkan--Jinbutsu/Rinpa painting, vol.4--Scenes from Literature, Figures (Kyoto: Shikosha tosho hanbai, 1991), p. 275, no. 47.
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, ed., Rinpa (Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 1993), p. 108.

Wood storage box signed and inscribed by Yasuda Yukihiko (1884-1978).

On a summer night Genji spies on Utsusemi and Nokiba no Ogi as they play a game of go.

This hanging scroll is a fragment from an eight-panel screen formerly in the collection of the Fujii family signed Sotatsu hokkyo and sealed Taiseiken. Other fragments survive as hanging scrolls in private collections and museums. For a fragment of the Aoi chapter and a photograph of the entire original screen, see Idemitsu Museum of Arts, ed., Rinpa (1993), p. 108.

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