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Maple branch in spring
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Description
Sakai Hōitsu was a high-ranking samurai, son of the lord of Himeji Castle. He studied with Kanō, Ukiyo-e, Nanga, and Maruyama Schools before settling down to pursue the Rinpa style of Ogata Kōrin. The tree branches illustrate a technique favoured by Rinpa artists known as tarashikomi in which several colours of wet pigment are allowed to pool together on the surface, producing a blurred effect. The metallic background is another Rinpa characteristic. It is now tarnished, but would originally have been a much brighter silver.
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- early 19th century
- Artist/maker
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Sakai Hōitsu (1761 - 1828) (artist)Rinpa School (active 17th century - early 20th century)
- Material and technique
- puddled ink and colour (tarashikomi), and gold, on silver-leafed paper
- Dimensions
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mount 36.5 x 55.5 cm (height x width)
painting 24.2 x 50.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Dr Michael Harari, from the collection of his father, Ralph Harari, 1981.
- Accession no.
- EAX.5432
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Further reading
Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), no. 50 on p. 172, p. 153, illus. pp. 172-173
Hillier, J., The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings, copyright owned by Michael Harari, 3 vols (London: Lund Humphries, 1973), no. 301 on p. 535, illus. p. 536 fig. 301
Glossary
Nanga
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Nanga
Lit. ‘Southern painting’ – Edo period (1600-1868) Japanese painting school derived from Chinese models.
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Unfolding Nature: Images of Summer on Chinese and Japanese Fans
(from 10th Jul until 7th Oct 2012)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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