M.C. Goodwin - Death Quit

sabato 24 agosto 2013

Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)


Otagaki Rengetsu - Hanging Scroll (Japan, 19th ca.)
Ink and color on paper - 34.8 x 48.7 cm

Spring opens, hand drums
beating in celebration...

As it has for 10'000 ages
the onset of spring
brings singing
to these sacred isles
the poeple of Yamato.

Mounting 127 x 62.5 cm
Collector’s box
Inscription on the box (lid):

Black robe white mist: art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu, National Gallery of Australia exhibition catalogue, Melanie Eastburn, Lucie Folan, Robyn Maxwell (ed.), 2007.


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