YAMAGUCHI SOKEN (1759 - 1818)

Figures in a boat

Edo period, 18th/19th century

A Japanese hanging scroll painting, kakejiku, ink on paper, depicting a scholar and his apprentice quietly gliding up the stream towards a hut in a distance beneath snow-clad trees, signed Soken, sealed Soken, together with a hinoki wood box.

Image 94cm x 41cm; total 185cm x 53.5cm (3)

Provenance: the Claudio Perino Collection, Turin, acquired mostly in Japan in early 2000s.

Exhibited: MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin, and MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano, 2020 - 2022.

Literature: the exhibition catalogue Kakemono, Five centiuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection, p.166 no 152.

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