Gibon SENGAI
(Japan 1750–1837)
- Title
- Hakozaki
- Other titles:
- (Landscape)
- Place of origin
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Year
- late 18th century-early 19th century
- Media categories
- Painting, Calligraphy
- Materials used
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
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35.8 x 51.5cm image; 117.2 x 54.5 x 61.5cm scroll [height x width x rod]
- Credit
- Purchased 1994
- Accession number
- 639.1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Sengai is one of the best-known artists in the latter-day history of Rinzai Zen. He stayed at Shofuku-ji, Japan’s oldest Zen establishment in Hakata, near Hakozaki Hachiman Shinto shrine, for almost 40 years. The shrine’s symbolical gate (torii) is depicted in the foreground of this painting. The poem reads: "In the morning and evening/ I see over the shrine/ the Road in the Sea of Hakozaki/ and close is the Shiga hills" Road in the Sea (Umi no Nakamichi) is a narrow peninsular and Shiga is an island off it. (The poem was transliterated by a team of scholars from Japan led by Professor Fuii of the National History Museum in November 2002)
- Bibliography (1)
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Jackie Menzies (Australia) (Author), Art of the Brush - Chinese & Japanese painting calligraphy, Sydney, 1995, 19 (illus.).
- Exhibition history (1)
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Art of the brush, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 23 Sep 1995–12 Nov 1995.
