Huan Tingjian’s Chinese Poem over Silver and Gold-Mud Underpainting
- Person
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作者本阿弥光悦
- Date
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制作年 AD17
- Title
- ホンアミコウエツヒツキンギンデイシタエコウザンコクシショカン
- Collections
- Century Akao Collection
- Depository
- Institute of Oriental Classics (Shido Bunko) Campus Mita
Hon-ami Koetsu (1558-1637) was both a calligrapher and artisan active between the late Momoyama Period and the early Edo Period. He was born into the Hon-ami family, which, for generations, engaged in polishing, cleaning and appreciating Japanese swords. Koetsu seems to have started his multiple careers in ink-and-brush writing and painting, makie (sprinkling of pictures on lacquer) and pottery-making when his father, Koji, established his own family line, breaking away from the main Hon-ami household. A reputed intellectual with artistic gifts, Koetsu was quickly recognized by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) and was given an estate in Takaga-Mine (northern Kyoto) in 1615. Here, Koetsu established an art village where he created numerous fine works of art, some of which are national treasures today, e.g., Writing Box with Pontoon Bridge. He is known to have lived an enviable, leisurely life in his old age, enjoying tea ceremonies.In calligraphy, Koetsu first studied the Shoren-In School under Priestly Prince Soncho (1552-1597). Not content with the stylistics, Koetsu’s interest shifted to the classical Jodai School, under the obvious influence of China’s Sung Dynasty calligrapher Zhang Jinzhi (1186-1266; Jp. Cho Sokushi) and the Reverend Kobo Daishi Kukai (774-835), the originator of the Daishi School. The resultant style is characterized by extremely varied, yet elegant and decorative, rich and bold lines mixed with thin fine lines, a unique style that was later admired as the Koetsu School. It attracted numerous followers, such as Suminokura Soan (1571-1632), Kojima Soshin (1580-1655?) and Karasumaru Mitsuhiro (1579-1638), to name a few. Koetsu was one of the most distinguished calligraphers, admired as “Kanei-no-Sampitsu” (The Three Brushes of Kanei).This is a copy of six poems from Collection of Huan Tingjian’s Poems, published by the poet Huan Tingjian (1045-1105) of the Northern Sung Dynasty. The scroll has bold underlying drawings of plum, pine and bamboo motifs in silver and gold mud and equally impressive woodblock prints of ball fern (shinobigusa) on the back in silver and gold mud, finished to overall luxury. Koetsu’s brushwork shows the influence of Chinese calligrapher Zhang Jinzhi (1186-1266; Jp. Cho Sokushi). Perhaps this work was made in the artist’s mid-60s. The rectangular black seal of Koetsu’s name is seen at the end of the scroll.
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