Sage playing the Ch’in (seven-string kotō) in a foggy bamboo grove

Hanging scroll picture (kakemono)

Japanese Collection

Accession Nr.: 1088
Type: painting; hanging scroll
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
first half of the 19th century
Edo (Tokugawa) period
Place of production:
Acquisition: collected by Péter Vay
Signed: Seisen Osanobu hitsu (晴川養信筆)
Marks: Rectangular crimson seal.
Materials/Techniques: ink painting on silk, mounted on paper and brocade, wood rolls and roll-ends, woven silk thread for hanging
Dimensions: height: 124.5 cm
width: 61.5 cm
mirror: 41.8 × 58.6 cm
The painting depicts a vast bamboo grove shrouded in mist, with a stream flowing through it. The pale disk of the moon can be made out in the top left. A sheer cliff rises on the right, with pine trees and bamboos growing at its foot.