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Details
- Other Title
- (Landscape)
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- late 18th century-early 19th century
- Media categories
- Scroll , Painting , Calligraphy
- Materials used
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 35.8 x 51.5 cm image; 117.2 x 54.5 x 61.5 cm scroll
- Credit
- Purchased 1994
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 639.1994
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Sengai Gibon
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About
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)
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Art of the brush, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 23 Sep 1995–12 Nov 1995
Beyond Words: Calligraphic Traditions of Asia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Aug 2016–30 Apr 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Jackie Menzies, Art of the Brush - Chinese & Japanese painting calligraphy, Sydney, 1995, 19 (illus.).
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