Lot 148: Jinbutsu zoga (Collection of figure sketches)

Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)
Jinbutsu zoga (Collection of figure sketches)
Signed, dated and inscribed Mizunoe-tatsu aki shichigatsu (seventh month, autumn, 1832) tame Kogyoku joshi sha Zenraku'o (painted by Zenraku'o [Kazan] for Kogyoku), sealed Moko and Kazan
Handscroll; ink and slight color on paper
11½ x 344¼in. (29.2 x 874.2cm.)

Aichiken Tawara Bunkakaikan, "Gendai ni ikiru Kazan meisakuten" (Exhibition of Kazan's surviving masterpieces), 1985.4.28-5.7


PUBLISHED:
Kazan meisakuten jimukyoku, ed., Gendai ni ikiru Kazan meisakuten (Exhibition of Kazan's surviving masterpieces) (Tawaracho: Tawara City and Tawara City Educational Committee, 1985), no. 81.

This handscroll includes sketches of Du Fu's "Eight poets Drinking," Kanzan and Jittoku, Daruma and Shoki. Kazan painted the scroll for the woman painter Saito Kogyoku (1814-1870), who had been his pupil since the age of ten.