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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ROBERT AND MRS. PATRICIA JACOBSEN,
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
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SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891)
Autumn Plants and a Cricket
Signed Zeshin with a seal Tairyukyo
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
35Ω x 11 in. (90 x 27.9cm.)
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:
Joseph Seo, New York
EXHIBITED:
On loan to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1981.

Dr. Robert Jacobsen has had a long and distinguished career in the
field of Asian art, as a scholar, teacher, lecturer, and most notably as
the Chair of Asian Art and Curator of Chinese, Indian, Himalayan,
Southeast Asian and Islamic Art Department at the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts.

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SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891)
Waterfall
Signed Tairyukyo Zeshin sei, sealed Zeshin
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
53æ x 34º in. (136.5 x 87 cm.)
With wood box inscribed and certified by Hoshin
$20,000-40,000

The long-lived lacquer artist Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891) was one
of the elite group of craftsmen schooled in the fashions of the Edo
period who made the great leap from the dictates of the feudal
society into the Age of Enlightenment and Westernization in Japan
in the Meiji era (1868 -1912). He was apprenticed at the age of
eleven to the great inro artist Koma Kansai II (1767-1835) from
whom he learned the traditional techniques of makie.
In 1891 Zeshin was appointed a Teishitsu Gigei-In [Imperial Artist],
and became a professor of the University of Fine Arts in Tokyo
together with his fellow Imperial Artist Kano Natsuo (1828-1898).
A similar painting by the same artist is in the collection of the
Birmingham Museum of arts, Alabama, see https://www.artsbma.
org/collection/waterfall-3/

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