About This Scroll
For the only, or perhaps just first, scroll in this collection, I chose a simple and playful motif by the artist
Takeuchi Seihō, in an elegant mounting, of two small eggplants and a recently picked cucumber.
The Accoutrements
nestled in its custom box
 cover inscription
栖鳳筆野菜圖
Seiho hitsu yasai zu
Seiho's drawing of vegetables
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inside cover inscription and seal
桂華題
keikadai*
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* Japanese art historian Lynn Katsumoto, kind enough to assist me in the translation of the inscription, in commenting on the word keikadai 桂華題, notes: "a genre or subject matter (dai) involving plants and flowers (kei being katsura or cinammon tree, also carries the sense of something in nature that is beautiful) and (ka being hana or flower, with the connotation of something gorgeous)."
Scroll Details
| IHL Catalog | #861 |
Title (description)
| Vegetables 野菜 (painting of eggplants and cucumber)
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| Medium | ink on paper with silk brocade and bone roller (jikuji)
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Artist
| Takeuchi Seihō (1864-1942)
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Signature
| Box cover inscription (shown above) reads: 栖鳳筆野菜圖
Seiho hitsu yasai zu (Seiho's drawing of vegetables)
painting Takeuchi Seihō with unread seal | inside of box lid
unread seal |
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| Seal | as shown above
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| Date | undated - Late Meiji era to early Taisho era |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - some foxing in painting
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| Miscellaneous | scroll box (kiri-bako) - Paulownia wood |
| Genre | nihonga
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| Format | hanging scroll (kakemono) |
| H x W Scroll | 49 3/4 x 21 1/4 in. (126.4 x 60.5 cm )
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H x W Painting
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| Collections This Print | not applicable
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