Japanese and Korean Painting

Nakabayashi Chikuto 中林竹洞 (1776-1853)

“Hawk in Winter”

Hanging scroll, ink on silk
192.2 x 57.9 cm. (51 x 22 3/4 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted in emulation of the brush-ideas of Lin I-shan (Lin Liang) by the mountain-recluse Chikuto.”

Artist’s seals:
Seisho no in; Chikuto

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Tomioka Tessai 富岡鉄斎 (1836-1924)

“Fish Market”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
85.9 x 57.5 cm. (33 7/8 x 22 5/8 in.)

Inscription:
“Ken Kon (the trigrams for Heaven and Earth). (The Emperor Shen Nong) established a market at noon, causing all the people beneath the heavens to gather all the goods beneath the heavens and exchange them before returning home, each having achieved their goals. This must have been done on the basis of the trigrams shi-shi.
This occurs in the chapter jici of the Yiqing (“Book of Changes”). Note: Shen Nong taught the people living along the rivers and on the seacoast to catch fish and turtles, and he taught woodcutters in the mountains and valleys to gather firewood, and then to exchange these for what they have not. This, then, was the origin of markets. Tetsu-gai.”

Artist’s seals:
Yo yo estu do-jin; Shin shin jo sui

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Tani Buncho 谷文晁 (1763-1840)

“Li Bo Enjoying a Waterfall” 1838

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
112 x 41.6 cm. (44 1/8 x 16 3/8 in.)

Inscription:
“During the eighth month of the year 1838 in the Tenpō period, painted by the seventy-five-year-old man, Bunchō.”

Artist’s seal:
Gagaku-sai (“Studio for Studying Painting”)

Published:
Auction Catalogue of the Taichō-kaku Collection, Tokyo Art Club, 1925, cat. no. 64.1

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Yamamoto Koitsu (1843?-1905?)
山本光一

”Beauty, after Matabei”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
51.5 x 72.3 cm. (20 1/4 x 28 1/2 in.)

Inscription:
“I followed a picture by the old master Iwasa Matabei, Seisei Koitsu.”

Artist’s seal:
Ryokudou-kansou

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