Nanga
Chokunyû dôjin suiboku sansui ga jûshitei (Shogajô) Album with 14 landscape ink paintings by Chokunyû dôjin.Signed: Yûkokusai dôjin Ichi (and others forms)
Seals: many different
Technique: sumi on paper 24 x 18
Date: Autumn day in 1906
Condition: some light ware on the covers, otherwise very good
15 double pages in decorated damask covers:
1 Titel: 間念助與 Kannen jokiyô - Relief between desire and pleasure
2 Willow and fisherman
3 Poem
4 Cabin under trees
5 poem
6 Cabin under trees with waterfall
7 poem
8 Cabin in bamboo
9 poem
10 Drinking tea in autumn bush
11 poem
12 Cold bush with gate
13 poem
14 Winterlandscape
15 colophon
Chokunyû was born in Ôita Takeda in Bungo province. His master Tanomura Chikuden (1777-1835) came from the same area. Chokunyû became his pupil when he was in his 9th year. Chikuden recognized his talents and adopted him, upon which Chokunyû gave up his own family name of Mitsumiya. Apart from his painting activities he also immersed himself in Chinese studies. He was, moreover, a pivotal figure in sencha-loving circles in Kyoto and Osaka. As the number of devotees augmented, he founded a sencha society in Osaka in order to preserve and consolidate the work of earlier sencha enthusiasts like Rai San’yô (1781-1832). It became known as the Seiwan Chakai, Blue Bay Tea Society. As its originator and promoter Chokunyû achieved tremendous fame. Early in the Meiji era he became involved in the founding of Kyoto’s Prefectural Art School and in due course became its first director. He also helped to establish the Japanese Nanga Society. He was a prolific artist not only drawn to landscape and flowers, trees and grasses, but also to birds, animals and human figures. With Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) he was a leading figure in the sencha world of the Meiji era.
Reference:
Roberts p. 174
Araki pp. 1080-1081
Graham p. 171 ff.
Berry & Morioka ‘99 p. 92-95 (# 12)
Berry & Morioka ‘08 p. 303-05 (# 42-43, 79)
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