Summerfest

Ike Gyokuran (1728-84) 池 玉瀾

“Summer Landscape” 夏山水图

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
102.8 x 27.1 cm. (40 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)

Inscription:
“Gyokuran.”

Artist’s seal:
Gyokuran

Published:
Felice Fischer with Kyōko Kinoshita: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007, fig. 23, p. 47.

Provenance:
Kochukyo, Tokyo

Anonymous Chinese (19th century)
中國無款

“Butterflies in Garden” 蝴蝶花园图

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
90.5 x 36.0 cm. (35 3/8 x 14 1/4 in.)

Provenance:
Sakamoto Yuhei, Tokyo

Yosa Buson (1716-83) 与謝 蕪村

“Mountain Retreat in Summer” 1773
夏山 水 图

Fan painting, ink and color on paper
26.5 x 70.0 cm (10 1/2 x 27 1/2 in.)

Artist’s inscription:
“On the sixteenth of the sixth lunar month of the year 1773 during the Anei reign-era, painted by Shunsei.”

Artist’s seals:
Shunsei-shi; Tōsei

Box Inscription:
Written by Nangaku in 1957, followed by two seals: Nangaku; Nangaku Kansho

Published:
–Buson Zenshū, Tokyo, 1998, vol. 6, Kaiga, Iboku (“Paintings and Calligraphies”), pl. 363, p. 86.

-Kubosō Memorial Museum: Ōgi-e (Special Exhibition of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Fan Paintings), Izumi, 1990, cat. 117.

Provenance:
Setsu-Gatodo, Tokyo

Anonymous Chinese (15th-16th century) 中國無款

“Peacocks and Peonies” 孔雀 牡丹图

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
144.0 x 80.3 cm. (56 3/4 x 31 5/8 in.)

Nakabayashi Chikutō (1776-1835)
中林竹洞

“Waterfall in Summer Mountains” 1820
夏山飛瀑图

Hanging scroll, ink on silk
128.2 x 41.7 cm. (50.5 x 16.4 in.)

Inscription:
“Waterfall in Summer Mountains.” Painted by Nakabayashi Nariaki.”

Artist’s seals:
Nariaki no in: Azana Hakumei

Box inscription:
by the artist dated to 1820

Provenance:
S. Yabumoto, Osaka

Tōdō Takafumi (mid-18th century)
藤堂高文

“Record of Travels to Chikubu Island” 1748 旅竹生島記

Handscroll, ink on silk
32.0 x 83.6 cm. (13 x 33 in.)

Inscription:
“During early summer of the year 1748 of the Enkyo reign-era, painted by Tō Shiboku.”

Artist’s seals:
Takafumi and one other

Title written by Itō Tōsho (1728-1804):
“’Record of Chikubu Island’ respectfully written by Zensho.”

Colophons:
1. by Okuda Sankaku (1703-1783) in the year 1772, recalling a trip he and Takafumi made to Chikubu Island in the year 1728 when he was twenty-five;
2. by Itō Tōgai (1670-1736) in the year 1721, recording another visit to Chikubu Island.

Box inscription:
by Kushimoto Tsuneyuki in 1915.

Authentication letter:
by Count Sano Joimin, head of the Nihon Bijutsu Kyōkai, in 1890.

Provenance:
Shoundo, Osaka

Okamoto Shūki (1807-1862) 岡本秋暉

“Peacocks and Peony” 孔雀 牡丹图

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
102.8 x 34.0 cm. (40 1/2 x 13 1/4 in.)

Inscription:
“Shūki.”

Artist’s seal:
Shūki rōjin (“Old Man Shūki’)

Provenance:
S. Yabumoto, Osaka

Gu Ding [Ku Ting] (19th century) 顧鼎

“Landscapes” 山水冊

Album of 14 leaves, ink, ink and color on silk
Each 30.5 x 22.8 cm. (12 x 9 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted by Gu Ding, called Zhengchi.” [Zhengchi Gu Ding xie] 正癡顧鼎冩

Artist’s seals:
Gu Ding [顧鼎]; Zhengchi [正癡]

Collectors’ seals:
Bottom left: Wei zhi [味之];
Bottom right: Zhengwei?yin [程味?印]