Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)

Hanging Scroll

Origin: Japan
Period: Edo Period - dated: 1869
Material: Ink on paper
Size (painting): H: 36 cm W: 5.7 cm

Very rare because of the seals' imprints. "Rengetsu preferred to keep things informal and very rarely used such [i.e. seal] imprints, perhaps out of a sense of modesty of deference". (Sayumi Takahashi, Black Robe White Mist, see below, p. 111)

Rushing to your side
dew scatters
the beautiful screen
wind blowing throuhg
its hollhock slats.

trans. Sayumi Takahashi

Mounting: 147 x 22.5 cm
Wooden box

Published: Black robe white mist: art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu, National Gallery of Australia exhibition catalogue, Melanie Eastburn, Lucie Folan, Robyn Maxwell (ed.), 2007, no.136 (details of the seals), 137, both ill. p.111.

Inv.no.: R1382
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