LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Six sliding doors (fusuma) from the abbot's quarters of Ryoanji, Kyoto; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper

Size Notes:

each (Chinese immortals); (167.6 x 80.6cm.) each (Chinese figures by a riverbank)

Exhibited:

Osaka Castle, "Osaka chikujo sanbyakugojunen kinen tokubetsu tenran" (Special exhibition commemorating the 350th anniversary of Osaka Castle), 1933 (Chinese Immortals).

Literature:

Osaka City Hall, ed., Osaka chikujo sanbyakugojunen kinen tokubetsu tenkan zuroku (Catalogue of a special exhibition commemorating the 350th anniversary of Osaka Castle) (Tokyo/Osaka: Geiensha, 1933), pl. 86 (Chinese immortals). Tsuchida Kyoson, Osakajonai tenkan Itoshizo fusuma ni tsuite (On the fusuma from the Ito collection exhibited at Osaka Castle), Toyo bijutsu 22 (March 1934): 81--88. "Ryoanji ichiren no sakuhin" (A group of paintings from Ryoanji), Nishi Nihon Shinbun, December 31, 1992 (Chinese immortals). Hiroshi Onishi, Immortals and Sages: Paintings from Ryoanji Temple, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 1993): pl. 31 (Chinese immortals).

Provenance:

Ryoanji, Kyoto. Higashi Honganji, Kyoto. Ito Den'emon, Fukuoka. Private Collection, Japan.