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TERASAKI KOGYO (1866-1919)
Daruma
Meiji (1868-1912) or Taisho (1912-1926) era, early 20th century
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk, depicting
Daruma standing holding a shoe, signed Kogyo 廣業 with a seal
Kogyo 廣業surrounded by a painted chumawashi (inner mounting)
with 15 rakan (direct disciples of the Buddha) and their attributes by a
mountain stream, within conventional silk mounts above and below,
the outside of the scrolll with a label containing the same information
as the box inscription; with a double wood tomobako storage box, the
inner box inscribed outside Sorei no Daruma Terasaki Kogyo sensei
hitsu 葱嶺之達磨 寺崎廣業先生筆 (Daruma in the Pamir Mountains,
brushed by master Terasaki Kogyo), inscribed inside Showa tsuchinoe-
tatsu shoto Manzan Dojin keidai 昭和戊辰初冬 幡山道人敬題
(Respectfully inscribed by Manzan Dojin in October 1930).
Overall: 207cm x 62cm (81½in x 24 5/8in);
main image: 111cm x 41cm (43¾in x 16 1/8in). (3).

£3,000 - 4,000
JPY440,000 - 590,000
US$4,000 - 5,300

According to one tradition, three years after the death of Bodhidharma
(founding patriarch of Zen Buddhism) at the age of 150, Zongyun,
a Chinese official returning home to the Kingdom of Wei (where
Bodhidharma had been buried), encountered him in the Pamir
Mountains, carrying a single sandal. Bodhidharma claimed to be going
back to India and informed Zongyuan that the ruler of Wei had died.
When Songyun got to Wei this turned out to be true. Bodhidharma’s
tomb was then opened and found to contain only one sandal.

After a turbulent early life spent mainly in his native Akita Prefecture,
Terasaki Kogyo moved back to Tokyo in 1888 where he painted bijinga
(pictures of beautiful women), produced magazine illustrations, briefly
taught at Tokyo School of Art and associated with such luminaries
as Okakura Tenshin and Hashimoto Gaho. He designed propaganda
woodblock prints during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) but then
settled into a more conventional career, exhibiting at the Bunten national
exhibitions and eventually being appointed Teishitsu Gigeiin (Artist to the
Imperial Household) in 1917, shortly before his early death.

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