Paired Calligraphies: Ripening Tea and Vast and Calm, 1841

Details

Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863)
Paired Calligraphies: Ripening Tea and Vast and Calm, 1841
Signed Kaioku sei sho, sealed Bokurin, Rakuyukyo and Hochikujo (or Hochikushi) sha, dated 1841 [cyclical date], seventh month
Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on paper
47 5/8 x 5½in. (121.0 x 14.0cm.) each

Literature

John M. Rosenfield with Fumiko E. Cranston, Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers, Vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999), pp. 209-10, no. 174.
John M. Rosenfield and Shujiro Shimada, Traditions of Japanese Art: Selections from the Kimiko and John Powers Collection, (Cambridge, MA: The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1970), no.132.

Exhibited

The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1970

Special notice

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拍品专文

The poems have been translated as follows:

(Right)
The pure fragrance of ripening tea;
A guest reaching the gate.
What pleasure!

(Left)
Vast and calm in its own right
Is the place where a bird sings,
A flower falls, and no one intrudes.

Translation by Fumiko E. Cranston from Extraordinary Persons, Vol. 2 (1999), p. 209.

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