Lot 36: Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863)

Nukina Kaioku (1778-1863) Outside the Bamboo Screen, circa 1849 Signed Suo, sealed Betsuyu tenchi hijinkan, Tekisu roho and Kaikyaku ikkyo Hanging scroll; ink on paper 41 x 9½in. (104.2 x 24.0cm.)

104.2 x 24.0cm.

circa 1849

John M. Rosenfield with Fumiko E. Cranston, Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers, Vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999), pp. 213-14, no. 176.

This poem has been translated: Outside the bamboo screen faintly seen In the moonlight scooping water from the well – The colleague of my writing studio. We debate about tea, then speak of meditation. Translation by Fumiko E. Cranston from Extraordinary Persons, Vol. 2 (1999), p. 213.