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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.37
People
Hatta Kōyō 八田高容 (1882 - 1944)
Title
Scholar’s Studio: Rakushisha no aki (Autumn at the Rakushisha)
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 落柿舎之秋
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, screen
Date
1925
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Taishō era, 1912-1926
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/371494

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pair of two-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions
each screen: H. 168.3 × W. 184.2 cm (66 1/4 × 72 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • seal: right screen, lower right; circular, relief; artist' seal: 高容 [Kōyō]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hatta Kōyō, creator, Tokyo (1925), sold; to Private Collection, Kyoto (1925-2017), sold; to [Shimonaka Antiques, Kyoto (2017-2018)], sold; to [Thomsen Gallery, New York (2018-2021)], purchase; by the Harvard Art Museums.

Note: Exhibited 1925, 6th Teiten (National Salon), Tokyo

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.37
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This painting invites us to enter a lyrical scene: a peaceful poetic hermitage almost completely encircled by the rippling greenery in which it is nestled. The eye is led into the hermitage via the pathway at the right hand side. As one approaches the soft-focus landscape periodically resolves into crisply descriptive highlights: a round straw hat hanging by the doorway, books and a rosary set within the resident’s studio, a crescent moon-shaped decoration cut into the wood of the shutter at far left, and the russet tips of a smattering of autumnal leaves in the garden. A slim tree trunk speckled with verdigris lichens rises up just right of center in the left screen; its elliptical leathery leaves arch down over the roof of the studio in the top center of the right screen, almost puncturing the fourth wall. The leaves that entreat us to enter are distinctive, identifiable as those of the persimmon and thus a key to the identity of the tranquil location depicted: we have come to the “Rakushisha” 落柿舎 or Hermitage of Fallen Persimmons.

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