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FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION (LOTS 1234-1246)
YANG SHOUJING (1839-1914)
Calligraphy
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YANG SHOUJING (1839-1914)
Calligraphy
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated fifth month, guichou year (1913)
Further inscribed and signed by Kusakabe Meikaku (1838-1922), with three seals
Dated autumn, jiayin year (1914)
Further inscribed and signed by Xuxin Laoren on the wooden box, with two illegible seals
NOTE :
Kusakabe Meikaku was the father of Japanese modern shodo and the founder of the Meikaku style. He was one of the most famous calligraphers of the Meiji era. As a member of the emissary team of the Qing court to Japan led by He Ruzhang, Yang Shoujing stayed in Japan for four years between the thirteenth (1881) to the seventeenth year of the Meiji era. At the time Kusakabe Meikaku studied under him as an apprentice of calligraphy.
137 x 34 cm. (53 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
Calligraphy
Hanging scroll, ink on paper
Inscribed and signed, with three seals of the artist
Dated fifth month, guichou year (1913)
Further inscribed and signed by Kusakabe Meikaku (1838-1922), with three seals
Dated autumn, jiayin year (1914)
Further inscribed and signed by Xuxin Laoren on the wooden box, with two illegible seals
NOTE :
Kusakabe Meikaku was the father of Japanese modern shodo and the founder of the Meikaku style. He was one of the most famous calligraphers of the Meiji era. As a member of the emissary team of the Qing court to Japan led by He Ruzhang, Yang Shoujing stayed in Japan for four years between the thirteenth (1881) to the seventeenth year of the Meiji era. At the time Kusakabe Meikaku studied under him as an apprentice of calligraphy.
137 x 34 cm. (53 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
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