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涅槃寂静 | THE COLLECTION OF DAVID AND NAYDA UTTERBERG (LOTs 1-20)

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ANONYMOUS (JAPAN, DATED 1430)
Tenjin Visiting China

Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper
34æ x 14¡ in. (88.3 x 36.5 cm.)
Inscription by Yoka Shinko (?-1437)

$200,000-250,000
渡唐天神図 与可心交賛

PROVENANCE:
Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, Cambridge, MA
London Gallery, Tokyo
LITERATURE:
Yamashita Yuji, “Yoka Shinko San Toto Tenjin Zo” (A Tenjin
Visiting China Painting Inscribed by Yoka Shinko), Kokka, no. 1100
(1987), pp. 14–22
London Gallery, Ltd., ed. Buddha’s Smile: Masterpieces of Japanese
Buddhist Art. Exh cat. Tokyo: London Gallery, Ltd., 2000
Yukio Lippit, “Tenjin Visiting China” in Gregory Levine and Yukio
Lippit, Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan. Exh. cat.
(New York: Japan Society, 2007) cat. no. 36, p. 126
Julia Meech, “David Scott Utterberg (1946–2019): A Very Private
Collector” Impressions 42, Part Two of a Double Issue (2021) www.
japaneseartsoc.org, pp. 77–99, fig. 12