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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.77.1
People
Imei Shūkei 維明周奎, Japanese (1731 - 1808)
Title
Blossoming Plum under Sun and Moon (right scroll)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, hanging scroll
Date
1798
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/377682

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Right scroll of a pair of hanging scrolls; ink and slight color on silk.
Dimensions
image only: 122 x 47 cm (48 1/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
with mount: 191 x 60.5 cm (75 3/16 x 23 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: of Rikunyo 六如 (1734–1801), right scroll, upper:
    六如道人題 [Inscribed by Rikunyo Dōjin]
  • signature: of Shūkei, right scroll, lower :
    維明 [Imei]
  • inscription: Right scroll:
    Poem by Rikunyo:


    萬蕊成團雪影輕

    生香不斷月矓明

    院門深鎖無人叩

    奈此江南別後情


    Lightly snowing, ten thousand round flowers

    Scenting the air incessantly in the hazy moonlight

    The gate is closed, there is nobody to visit me

    What to do with this feeling after having parted from you at Jiangnan?

    Poem by Shūkei:

    二十四番風正新

    羅浮清境絕埃塵

    深雲擎出一彎月

    併入丹青長保春


    In the coldest period of the year, the new wind blows

    The land of the goddess of plum is spotless

    The crescent rises up among the clouds

    And together, enter the painting and long sustain the spring.
    (Translation by Yukio Lippit, 2021)


  • seal: Right scroll:
    progressing right to left, top to bottom:

    rectangular, relief: 白樓 [Hakurō]

    rectangular, relief: 慈周 [Jishū]

    rectangular, relief: 六如 [Rikunyo]

    square, relief: 維明 [Imei]

    square, intaglio: 半環煙水半環山 [Hankan ensui hankan zan]

    rectangular, intaglio: 少林一枝 [Shōrin ichi-e]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Andreas Leisinger, Tokyo (by 2003), sold; to Robert and Betsy Feinberg, Maryland (2003-2024), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2024.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg in honor of Dr. Martha Tedeschi, on her retirement as Director of the Harvard Art Museums
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.77.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Timon Screech, Acquisition : art and ownership in Edo-period Japan, ed. Elizabeth Lillehoj (Warren, CT, 2007), pp. 41-43
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 207-208, cat. 207

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/10/2022 - 06/04/2023

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