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IKE TAIGA (1723-1776) Painted for the Yoshimitsu 儀満 family, Hirata, Izumo Province, in 1755
Kochukenkon 壷中乾坤 (THE UNIVERSE IN A JAR), DATED 1755 Lord Takamatsu 高松侯 (dates of ownership unknown)
Handscroll, ink on paper, painted with a continuous scene starting Hatta Hyojiro八田兵次郎 (original name Sato 佐藤 Hyojiro), by 1914
with a Chinese scholar climbing into the mouth of a huge jar, two Matsumoto Shozo 松本枩蔵 , by 1933
other scholars and an attendant behind him, followed by a sparse river
landscape with sailboats; a group of imposing buildings, one of them PUBLISHED OR CITED (for further details, please refer to the
with two seated scholars; a tree-clad hill; riverside houses and crags; discussion below):
a riverside pavilion with a seated scholar; concluding with a large tree Hatta Hyojiro 八田兵次郎, Saido seisho 西洞清賞 (Treasures of the
and a hillside; inscribed in large characters at the beginning of the Saido Collection), Osaka, 1914, accessible online at http://kindai.ndl.
scroll: Kochukenkon 壷中乾坤 (The Universe in a Jar) and at the end of go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1014487, digital pp.44-45
the scroll: 靈谿潛可盤安事登雲梯 (for translation and discussion, see Togari Soshin’an外狩素心庵, Zoku Soken’an bijutsu shusei zuroku 続双
below); signed at the end of the scroll: Sangaku Doja shai toki Horeki 軒庵美術集成図 錄 (Catalog of the Soken’an Art Collection, Continued),
kinoto-i sangatsu futsuka 三岳道者写 意時宝暦 乙亥三月二日(Sangaku Kyushu Denki Kido Kabushiki Kaisha九州電氣軌道株式会社 (Kyushu
Doja [one of Taiga’s names] painted the essence of this subject on Electric Railroad, Inc.), 1933 (catalog of an auction held at Tokyo Art
the second day, third month, kinoto-i year of Horeki [1755]); seals Ike Club, October 21, 1933), lot 200.
Mumei in 池無名印 and Gyokko Koanri (玉皇香案吏) Matsushita Hidemaro 松下英麿, Ike Taiga 池大雅, Tokyo, 1967, p.99
Melinda Takeuchi, Taiga’s True Views: The Language of Landscape
With double fitted tomobako boxes; the inner box inscribed outside Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan, Stanford, 1992, p.175, note 43
Ike Taiga kochu kenkon emaki 池大雅壺中乾坤畫巻 (Picture scroll of the
Universe in a Jar, by Ike Taiga) with paper label sealed Soken chin(?) The two seals at the end of the scroll, widely used in combination by
雙軒珍?; the inside of the lid with a lengthy kanbun inscription (see Taiga, are listed in Felice Fischer with Kyoko Kinoshita, Ike Taiga and
illustration) including a date of 1810 (discussed below); the outer box Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters of the Brush, Philadelphia,
inscribed outside Taigado kochukenkon ichiga 大雅堂壺中乾坤一畫 2007, Appendix II, nos.S14 and S25 (pp.485-6).
(A painting by Taigado of the Universe in a Jar); the inside with paper
label Soken seisho 雙軒清賞
11 1/2 x 510in (29.1 x 1,296cm)
$100,000 - 150,000
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