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*SHIOKAWA BUNRIN (1808-1877)
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*SHIOKAWA BUNRIN (1808-1877)
Vertical ink and color scroll on silk
Depicting three fireflies flying on the surface of the water on a summer evening. Signed "Kachiku rojin Shio Bunrin" (Shio(kawa) Bunrin, old man Kachiku) on the lower left and with two seals "Bunin" and "Shion".
Dim. tot. 170.5 x 32 cm
Provenance: Gregg Baker Gallery, London
NOTE
A Kyoto artist, Shiokawa Bunrin studied with Okamoto Toyohuko and became a central figure of the Shijo school. He worked for the Kyoto aristocracy, notably the Yasui family. Fireflies ("Hotaru") are a recurring motif in Bunin's work. This subject may have been inspired by chapter 45 ("Iku Hotaru" Fireflies in Flight) of the Ise Monogatari, where a man has just learned that the woman who loved him has died without confessing her love. It should be noted that a vertical Bunrinl scroll with a similar subject is preserved in the collections of the British Museum (1980,0728,0.4). Other works by the artist are in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford| Freer Gallery of Art, Washington| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York| Tokyo National Museum| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Vertical ink and color scroll on silk
Depicting three fireflies flying on the surface of the water on a summer evening. Signed "Kachiku rojin Shio Bunrin" (Shio(kawa) Bunrin, old man Kachiku) on the lower left and with two seals "Bunin" and "Shion".
Dim. tot. 170.5 x 32 cm
Provenance: Gregg Baker Gallery, London
NOTE
A Kyoto artist, Shiokawa Bunrin studied with Okamoto Toyohuko and became a central figure of the Shijo school. He worked for the Kyoto aristocracy, notably the Yasui family. Fireflies ("Hotaru") are a recurring motif in Bunin's work. This subject may have been inspired by chapter 45 ("Iku Hotaru" Fireflies in Flight) of the Ise Monogatari, where a man has just learned that the woman who loved him has died without confessing her love. It should be noted that a vertical Bunrinl scroll with a similar subject is preserved in the collections of the British Museum (1980,0728,0.4). Other works by the artist are in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford| Freer Gallery of Art, Washington| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York| Tokyo National Museum| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.