Sengai

Lot 172: Sengai Gibon (1750-1837)

Name: Sengai Gibon (1750-1837)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: hlbw1fjru6

Est: $7,000 USD - $9,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USMarch 28, 2006

Item Overview

Description

Yawning Hotei
Sealed Sengai
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
13 1/8 x 22 1/4 in. (33.5 x 56.5cm.)

Artist or Maker

Sengai

Notes

The poem reads:

Yo mo sugara seishi nehan o mishi yume wa
Ikani hotoke ni osoware ni keru

Dreaming of nirvana, life and death is just like being attacked by the Buddha.

For another example, see Awakawa Yasuichi, Zen Painting (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1970), pl. 114.

Auction Details

Japanese Including Property of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christie's

March 28, 2006, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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