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PREVIOUSLY IN THE COLLECTION OF HOSOKAWA MORISADA ♢๶ㄼㆯ⧃ⳉ (LOTS 961-962)

The Hosokawa family were the domain lords of Kumamoto in Kyushu. ⡿႓།ᚉᛓᚚទᾢទ⥂㏟ᚉ卿᚝ᙻ ӽ⡕卿⡿႓ক᭄ἃ㑷ߧཉ᭄㋳
In the 14th century, Hosokawa Kazuuji (1296-1342) and Hosokawa ✥卿⡿႓㐘Ԡߺ㖓׈ჺᄁ⎏✄Ӳջ㑷ߧ⨒ᶕཆ㕘ࢶᇂ࢈Ꮗ卿ᅤ⛁⢴
Yoriyuki (1329-1392) assisted Ashikaga Takauji (1305-1358) and Ashikaga Ӭᚚទ⎏ༀ⊘რᄙǯ⡿႓།⣌᫓ࢦᄃջ⎏㖜Ὥ卿ᚺᯎഌ᫈ᛞឆ✄
Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) to establish the Muromachi shogunate period. In ջ⡿႓㍙⛁卿㫀भ⡿႓།ᚉ୨⎋അჺ׹ࢦᄃջ՞⎏ऒ⧻ワ৅ᘘ⻦卿
1950, Hosokawa Moritatsu (1883-1970) of the 16th generation, catalogued ᙻ ჺࠛ⛁᭦㬪ᙔᄣ卿۔⯍✄ ջ⡿႓㍙㏌卿ᘟ⊤㘧㪰ᇌᓞᝫ❖
his family’s art collection and set up the Eisei-Bunko Museum. The
↚ᙔᄣ卿ཇ᯷㧙Ⓔᔺ⻦ԋஇᝧ⊺卿㎒༛Ի⡿႓།ᚉ⎏⻱ワ৅ᘘ⻦ǯ
Collection was later transferred to Hosokawa Morisada (1912-2005). After
retiring from political life, Morisada focused on acquiring and studying
Asian art including Chinese paintings and calligraphy, and thereby
enriching the Hosokawa Collection.

961
XIANG SHENGMO (1597-1694)
Pine Tree
Hanging scroll, ink on gold-flecked paper
87.8 x 40.8 cm. (34 ¬ x 16 ¿ in.)
Inscribed with a poem and signed, with two seals of the artist
EXHIBITED:
Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, The Eleventh
Exhibition of Eisei Bunko – Fine and Decorative Art of Ming and Qing
Dynasties, 12 September – 18 October 1981.
LITERATURE:
The Eleventh Exhibition of Eisei Bunko – Fine and Decorative Art of
Ming and Qing Dynasties, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art,
Kumamoto, 1981, pl.127.
Kei Suzuki ed., Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings:
Vol. 4 Japanese Collections: Temples and Individuals, University of
Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1983, pp. IV-420 and IV-636, pl. JP36-001.
HK$800,000-1,000,000 US$110,000-130,000

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