Worlds in Flux

You Jin [Yu Chin] (later 19th century)

尤锦

“Landscapes”
山水 冊

Album of 10 leaves, ink and color on paper
Each 28.2 x 25.8 cm. (11 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Jin yin; Shangqiong (“Honoring Simplicity”)

Collectors’ seals:
Zhang Chongyi; Lianfeng

(Leaf 3 shown on left: entire album shown below)

Wu Changshi [Wu Ch’ang-shih] (1844-1927);
吳昌碩

Ni Tian [Ni T’ien] (1855-1919)
倪墨

“Autumn Flowers”
秋桂 扇

Folding fan, ink and color on paper
18.0 x 52.0 cm. (7 1/8 x 20 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and seals:
“Laoyue (Wu Changshi) painted the autumn colors.”
Seal: Jun

“Mogeng (Ni Tian) added the red cassia.”
Seal: Baotian

Tsuda Hokkai (d. 1780)
津田北海

“Travellers on Autumn River” 1756
秋溪行旅圖

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
117.0 x 41.2 cm. (46 x 16 1/8 in.)

Inscription:
“During the second lunar month of winter of the year 1756, painted for Master Kunzan by Tsu(da) Okei, called Hokkai.”

Artist’s seals:
Okei; Jobun; Hosen hyakuseki (“At the spring’s edge a hundred stones”)

Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799)
長沢蘆雪

“Two Crows on Persimmon Branch”
残柿雙鴉図

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
98.0 x 28.0 cm. (38 1/2 x 11 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted by Rosetsu.”

Artist’s seals:
Hyokei; Gyo

Box inscription:
Kunii Ōyo, dated mid-summer of 1917, authenticating the work “without room for doubt.”

Okano Sekiho (mid-18th century)

岡野石圃

“Reading in Autumn Landscape”
秋景讀陰図

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
113.0 x 45.7 cm. (44 1/2 x 18 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Oka Toru no in; Taiwa Shujin

Colophon by Daiten Kenjō (1719-1801):
“Water cascades from the cloudy mountains
famed from days of old till now,
I especially love this painted scroll
and roam through it all;
Where the bridge is severed by mist and rain
plum blossoms are thin,
Where mountain torrents are crossed by wind and frost
tree leaves are dense.
Inscribed by Shōchū.”

Artist’s seals: Tankai Chikujō; Shōchū

Aoki Shukuya (1737-1802)
青木夙夜

“Landscape in Autumn” 1802
秋景図

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
121.4 x 39.7 cm. (47 3/4 x 15 5/8 in.)

Inscription:
“On an autumn day of the year 1802, painted by Shukuya.”

Artist’s seals:
Shukuya; Shoshu Sanbō

Provenance:
Iwasaki collection

Matsumura Goshun (1752-1811)

松岡呉春

“A Deer in Autumn”
秋景鹿図

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk
87.5 x 27.0 cm. (34 1/2 x 21 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted by Goshun.”

Artist’s seal:
Goshun

Box inscription:
Takeuchi Seihō (1864-1942) in 1907.

Kanō Kuninobu (1787-1840)
狩野邦信

“Moon over Autumn Hills”
月下秋山

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
39.0 x 53.5 cm. (15 1/4 x 21 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted by Kuninobu called Yūsei.”

Artist’s seal:
Kuninobu