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Shikishi by Hatakeyama Gyuan

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Date
制作年 AD17
Title
ハタケヤマギュウアンヒツシキシ
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Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
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AW-CEN-002244-0000
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慶應義塾(センチュリー赤尾コレクション)

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Hatakeyama Gyuan (1625-1693) was one of Kohitsu Ryosa’s (1582-1662) disciples, receiving training in the art of brushwork appreciation directly from Ryosa, and was the son of the first-generation Hatakeyama Gyuan (1589-1656). The grandfather, father and son all used the same name; the writer exhibited here was the second Gyuan, whose real name was Yoshitaka. He ran an appreciators’ business in Hongo, Tokyo, and was considered the utmost authority in the trade, on par with the Kohitsu family.In the authenticity certification, Yoshitaka used a guard-shaped stamp with carved “Gyuan” characters. But in order to differentiate himself from his father, the junior often used a square seal with the name “Den-an” carved on it. One can learn from the note on the back of the shikishi that it was indeed written by the second-generation Gyuan. The quoted Chinese poem is that of Hakkyoi (Ch. Bai Juyi, whose literary pseydonym was Haku Rakuten; Ch. Bai Letian) (772-846) from Wakan Roeishu (Anthology of Japanese Chinese Poems for Recitation;Vol. I, “Winter Nights”). The gold dust (miniscule foils) is scattered all over the shikishi surface, and plants and flowers are drawn in gold mud. Gyuan wrote the aforementioned poem on this elaborately decorated ryoshi and was perhaps asked to write this shikishi to be bound into a book. The brushwork is that of a well-trained writer of the Jodai (classical) School.

On a winter night, the overnight inn is hardly warm under a solitary, dim light. After several cups of warmed local sake, it feels like spring in the snow.

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慶應義塾(センチュリー赤尾コレクション)

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Shikishi by Hatakeyama Gyuan

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Shikishi by Hatakeyama Gyuan

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