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painting, handscroll
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English: Painting, handscroll. Playful pictures (giga) on New Year subjects: branch of young pine with charcoal; dried persimmon; prawns; small lacquered table bearing cooked sea bream; sprays of camellia and cherry. Also pictures depicting: demons fleeing in confusion; beans being hurled at them at Setsubun festival; Daikoku and Jurojin with ladder; servant having his back massaged by old woman; Ushiwakamaru and Benkei; "wisteria maiden" washing her hair; catfish with gourd. Ink and light colour on paper. Signed, sealed and inscribed on accompanying letter and certificate.
Depicted people Representation of: Daikoku 大黒
Date 1848 (1st month)
Medium paper
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Height: 30 centimetres (with mount)

Height: 26.80 centimetres
Width: 871.40 centimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Asia
Accession number
1982,0701,0.14
Notes

Smith et al 1990

Zeshin was equally celebrated as a lacquer craftsman, trained from the age of eleven in the techniques of Koma Kansai II (1766-1835), and as a painter in Shijo style, which he studied under Suzuki Nanrei (1775-1844) from the age of sixteen. In later life he even combined these two professions, developing a special technique of painting with lacquer pigments.

In addition to studying painting in Edo with Nanrei, Zeshin went to Kyoto for three years from 1830 to 1833 to receive teaching from Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845), a leading master of the Shijo school. The present handscroll is mounted together with a certificate dated 20th day/1st month/Koka 5 (1848) in which Zeshin bestows a new art-name 'Oshin' on a pupil whose family name is Matsuno; the scroll may thus have been intended as a graduation present. Very few pre-Meiji period (that is, pre-1868) paintings by Zeshin are yet known, and this handscroll provides valuable evidence of Zeshin's early Nanrei-influenced Shijo style.

The section illustrated shows a boldly cut-off arrangement of special foods, utensils and decorations for a New Year meal: a low black lacquer tray-table carrying a red snapper fish decorated with a fern leaf; deep black and red lacquer soup bowls; a wooden stacked food container; shallow sake cups on a stand; and a metal sake kettle with a sprig of leaves tied to the handle. With a variety of broad, moist brush strokes Zeshin finds painterly equivalents for the various rough and smooth textures and surfaces of the still-life objects.

FURTHER READING Honolulu Academy of Arts, 'The Art of Shibata Zeshin', London, 1979.

See also: Hillier, Jack, 'The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings', 3 vols, London, 1973, no. 277.

Hillier, Jack, 'The Uninhibited Brush: Japanese Art in the Shijo style', London, 1974, no. 272.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1982-0701-0-14
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