Earthly Agendas

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Ko Fuyo (1722-1784)

高芙蓉

“Traveler with Staff in Landscape” 1777
松溪山水圖

Hanging scroll, ink on satin
145.0 x 37.3 cm. (57 x 14 5/8 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted after the model of Zhang Ershui by Ko Mohyo during mid-autumn of the year 1777, the sixth of the Anei reign-era.”

Artist’s seal:
Mohyo

Colophon:
“A temple in pines appears in distant clouds,
floating in the blue-green mist;
A water-course in Spring
flows around the temple.
I suspect this ghee (of the highest stage of Enlightenment),
Is part of Vulture Peak (where the Buddha preached);
Entering this heaven Sweet Dew
fills the fragrant shore.
This was written in response to a request from The Master of the Suishin Studio (Kan Ten-ju) that I inscribe this again beneath a window the Fuyo Study. During the third lunar month of the year 1781 in the Tenmei era, Gen Mohyo from Kai (now Yamanashi prefecture).” Seals: Mo; hyo; Inryo-en shoga zo no in; Kantan –kyo

42

Sō Shizan (1733-1805)

宋紫山

“Tigers in Landscapes”
猛虎圓

Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk
Each 88.5 x 33.0 cm. (34 7/8 x 13 in.)

Inscriptions:
“Sō Shizan.”

Artist’s seals:
Sō Shizan

Box inscription:
Written by Yūei in 1828 when he obtained the paintings from the Kanryū-in.

43

Kano Isen’in (1775-1828)

狩野伊川院

“Cranes, after Wen Zheng”
倣文成鶴圖

Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk
Each 117.0 x 52.5 cm. (46 x 30 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions:
“Painted by the hoin Isen’in.”

Artist’s seals:
Isen’in; Gensho Eishen

44

Okada Beisanjin (1754-1820)

岡田米山人

“Conversation Beneath Pines” 1818
松下高士図

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
101.5 x 36.0 cm. (40 x 14 ¼ in.)

Artist’s inscription:
“In the immortal’s cottage, forgetting to return home,
is another old transcendent;
In the quiet room surrounded by bamboo
they boil pure spring water.
Discussing mountains while facing the water,
they respond warmly to one another;
Guest and host sip tea
and the day passes like a year.
The seventy-four-year old man, Beisanjjin.”

Artist’s seals:
Denkoku; Shigen; Beisanjin

Published:
Kouken Mokuroku, no. 40;
Kobijutsu, no. 53, 1977, p. 61.

45

Taki Katei (1830-1901)

淹和亭

“Spring Riches and Honor in the Jade Hall”
玉堂春富貴賀

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
208.0 x 90.0 cm. (82 x 35 1/2 in.)

Inscription:
“’Spring Riches and Honor in the Jade Hall.’ Painted during spring, the fifth month of the year 1891, by Katei Sei on the river at Nijo Sashun-ro (in Kyoto).”

Artist’s seals:
Ryo-moku So; Katei Taki Ken; Shichoku Ri; Sansei Den Kanja In

46

Sakai Hoshuku (b. 1878)

酒井抱祝

“Flowers of the Four Seasons” 1920
四季乃華

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
143.5 x 49.7 cm. (56 1/2 x 19 5/8 in.)

Inscription:
“Hoshuku.”

Artist’s seal:
Hoshuku

Box inscription:
“Shiki no Hana, (‘Flowers of the Four Seasons’), titled by Sakai Hoshuku during early winter of the year 1920.” Seal: Sakai Hoshuku