Sage playing the Ch’in (seven-string kotō) in a foggy bamboo grove
Hanging scroll picture (kakemono)
| Accession Nr.: | 1088 |
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| 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) |
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| 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.
