- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Label
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It is likely that this painting, now mounted as a hanging scroll, was once a panel in a pair of six-panel screens. Roshu, an artist whose father was an important official at the Kyoto mint, probably studied painting with Ogata Korin (1658-1716).
The assortment of flowering plants is placed in a visually successful composition that bears no relation to the natural world; plants from all seasons are shown blooming simultaneously. A fine example of early-eighteenth-century Rimpa mode, the plant and flower forms are defined by delicately modulated polychrome washes rather than by ink line. The desired impression of a soft, natural cornucopia is thus successfully achieved.
- Published References
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- Zaigai hiho [(Japanese Paintings in Western Collections]. 3 vols., Tokyo. vol. 1, pt. 1, pl. 66.
- Unknown title. no. 762 Tokyo. pl. 6.
- Unknown title. no. 801 Tokyo, December 1958. pl. 5.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
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