Nanga
Seasonale landscape paintingsSigned: Taizanjin
Seals: Hinaga, Shônen uji
Technique: sumi and colours on paper 24,1 x 45,6
Condition: except for som slight wormage in the covers, near fine
14 double page paintings iin album with bronze brocadecovers, 30.2 x 25.5
1. Enjoying plumblossom
2. Willows along the banks
3. Breeze through the pines
4. Abby in the mountains
5. summer rain in the mountains
6. Looking art the moon from a dimmed bamboo bush
7. A fresh breeze on the water
8. Watching the waterfall
9. Autumn trees
10. Sailing th bay
11. Rain along the road
12. Autumn at the bay
13. Light on the bay, the mountains and sails
14. It is cold on the water
Taizan considered himself an amateur scholar with a bunjin lifestyle, but he consistently acted the opposite by boasting and being drunk. He was born in Izumi, a village close to Osaka. In his early years he lived under the patronage of the wealthy shipping merchant Satoi Fukyû, who introduced Taizan to Okada Hankô (1782-1846) in 1842. Soon thereafter he was also introduced to Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863) in Kyoto, who became his teacher. When Taizan moved to Kyoto in 1846 he studied briefly with the Nagasaki painter-monk Hidaka Tetsuô (1791-1871), who visited Kyoto around that time.
Taizan was a favourite artist of the Kansai aristocracy from which he had many patrons and friends like Yanagawa Seigan (1789-1858), Nakabayashi Chikkei (1816-67) and Tesseki (1817-63).
Reference:
Berry & Morioka ’08 p. 263-65 (# 33-34)
Rosenfield B.14
Roberts p. 168
Araki p. 2418
Kyoto ’98 p. 291
Hempel (# 40.11)
Price: ON REQUEST
