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2. Sake Flasks (Tokkuri) by Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Japan
19th c.; Dated: 1871
ceramic; Glazed ceramic
H: 15.0 cm W: 10.0 cm D: 10.0 cm
Sake Flasks (Tokkuri) by Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Detail: different angle

Called by the beautiful moon, I launch my boat and singing out of tune, set out a fishing line. Rengetsu age 81 (1871)

Original box
Certificate box: Tokuda Koen

Inscription on the outer box (lid):
face: made by the old nun Rengetsu
incised waka poem, sake bottle pair with box
back: poem
Jinko-in Temple Sho Hermitage
Certified by Koen, Seal: Koen

Inscription on the original box
back: on Mr.Fujimi’s request

Published: Black robe white mist: art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu, National Gallery of Australia exhibition catalogue, Melanie Eastburn, Lucie Folan, Robyn Maxwell (ed.), 2007, no.96, ill. p.78.


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