The Immortal Past

Totoki Baigai (1749-1804)
十時梅厓

“Bamboo and Epidendrum” 1802

Pair of hanging scrolls, ink on silk
Each 176.3 x 47.2 cm. (69 3/8 x 34 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions:
(R) “Within my heart there are a thousand measures of ink, and if one scatters ink and does a painting or calligraphy, spontaneously a pure wind arises, jade-like in its sounds.

Painted and inscribed by Baigai.”

(L) “During autumn of the year 1802, painted by Baigai.”

Artist’s seals:
Kyukan-seiheki (“Absence from office becomes a habit”); and one other

Hayashi Ryoen (active 1772-1810)
林閬苑

“Landscape”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
105.1 x 39.5 cm. (41 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.)

Inscription:
“Ryoen, Hayashi no Shin.”

Artist’s seals:
Hayashi no Shin in; Hayashi Nisshin

Published:
Painters of the Three Capitals, Tokyo, 2011, cat. 88, p. 121.

Uragami Shunkin (1779-1846)
浦上春琴

“Landscapes for Boken” 1822

Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on satin 148.7 x 50.8 cm. (58 1/2 x 20 in.)

Inscriptions:
(R) “Done for my elder brother Boken by Shunkin, called Kisen.”
(L) “On the third day after solstice of the year 1822, painted at a guesthouse in western Bizen by the recluse Shunkin.”

Artist’s seals:
Kisen no in; Shunkin koji; Hakukyo

Box inscription:
By Boken, the person to whom Shunkin dedicated the paintings.

Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856)
山本梅逸

“The Retreat of Cranes” 1837

Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk
Each134.3 x 64.7 cm. (52 7/8 x 25 1/2 in.)

Inscription:
“In the year 1837 during the Tenpo reign era, in the darkness of the eleventh lunar month, in response to a request from the Master of Tanjyosui-en (the ‘Tranquil-as-water Garden’), Baiitsu, Yamamoto Ryu, painted this at a temporary abode in Heian.”

Artist’s seals:
Yamamoto Ryo yin; Meikei; Baiitsu

Sugai Baikan (1784-1844)
菅井梅関

“Landscape” 1816

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
54.5 x 87.1 cm. (21 1/2 x 34 1/4 in.)

Inscription:
“During the 29th day of the 6th lunar month of the year 1816, I painted this in the guest house at
Nagasaki in response to a request from Fukui, my elder brother in poetry, by Tosai from Sendai.”

Artist’s seals:
Sendai; Tosai

Kano Seisen’in (1796-1846)
狩野晴川院

“Illustrations to the Tale of Genji: ‘Beneath the Autumn Leaves’ and ‘Under the Cherry Blossoms’”

Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk
99 x 34.7 cm. (39 x 13 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions:
“Painted by Seisen’in, the hoin Yasunobu.”

Artist’s seal:
Kaisin hoin

Doi Goga (1817-1880)
土井聱牙

“On the Day of Drunken Bamboo”[1] 1868

Hanging scroll, ink on paper
147.5 x 77.7 cm. (58 1/8 x 30 5/8 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Doi Kaku in; Shikyo shi; Gosai

Amano Hoko (1824-1894)
天野方壼

“Accumulated Snow over Rivers and Mountains” 1877

Hanging scroll, ink on paper
165.7 x 66 cm. (65 1/4 x 26 in.)

Inscription:
“‘Accumulated Snow over Rivers and Mountains.’ During the ninth lunar month of the year 1877, painted by Hoko.”

Artist’s seals:
Amano Kitsu in; Kokyo-shi