LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ink, silver, gold and flecks of gold leaf on paper

Measurements:

12.76 in. (32.40 cm.) (height) by 373.70 in. (949.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, “Moji no chikara, sho no chikara II—sho to kaiga no taiwa / Power of Characters, Power of Calligraphy II—A Dialogue between Calligraphy and Painting,” July–September, 2013

Literature:

Asahi Shinbun, ed., Koetsu sho Sotatsu kingin dei-e (Koetsu’s calligraphy, Sotatsu’s gold and silver pictures) (Tokyo: Kokkasha, 1978), no. 5. Idemitsu Museum of Arts, ed., Moji no chikara, sho no chikara II — sho to kaiga no taiwa / Power of Characters, Power of Calligraphy II — A Dialogue between Calligraphy and Painting (Tokyo: Idemitsu Museum of Arts, 2013), no. 20

Provenance:

Private collection, Japan