Poem

Object Details

• Artist

  Obaku Nangen 南源性派 (1631-1692)

• School/Tradition

  Obaku

• Description

  Hanging scroll "Chiku (take) Sekijitsu yugen shiki ichigeki shishi shikai sei kasei". Five columns of characters, one very large character.

• Signatures

  Signed "Shingai tojitsu Obaku Nangen sho" ("Obaku Nangen wrote on a winter day of the Kanoto boar year [1671]").

• Marks

  Seals: "Goso goho," "Seiha no in" and "Takushi Nangen".

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Idea of China in Japan: The Tea Ceremony in Japan (December 19, 1999 to June 11, 2000)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Calligraphy

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• Name

  Obaku, Nangen

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Poetry

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Calligraphy (visual works)