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Subject:Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Jim N Wed, Jan 11, 2017 IP: 107.214.151.101 Hi, I posted this up about a month ago, but messed up posting the picture. I'm hoping that someone can help me read the signature (and maybe date) of the calligrapher on this hanging scroll. I'm told that the poem itself is by Ito Jinsai (1627 - 1705) but I don't believe that he is also the calligrapher. |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: rat Thu, Jan 12, 2017 The characters I can make out in the left column (likely artist's inscription) seem to read 藤維楨x, and the 維楨 are confirmed in the first seal, which reads 維楨之印. Which led me to this guy... |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Jim N. Sat, Jan 14, 2017 HI Rat, |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: [email protected] Sat, Jan 14, 2017 'Koresada' 維楨 was the original name of Itô Jinsai (1627-1705), Japanese Confucian philosopher and educator. |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Jim N Mon, Jan 16, 2017 Hi Guy and Rat, |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: rat Sun, Jan 22, 2017 Teng Weizhen is the Chinese reading for the top three characters of the signature column; you want the Japanese reading, which I think Guy provided above. |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: mikeoz Mon, Jan 16, 2017 I think Rat found the same example as Guy, and his observation of the differences in the seal is highly pertinent and probably indicate that this is a poseur. |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Guy Tue, Jan 17, 2017 Rat and Mike, |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Jim N Wed, Jan 18, 2017 Mikeoz, Guy and Rat, |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: John Rohrer Thu, Jan 19, 2017 I have been studying seals for many years. I |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Jim N Fri, Jan 20, 2017 Hi John, |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: rat Sun, Jan 22, 2017 Jim, yes, artists and others had multiple seals, some very similar. It is also true that the unscrupulous have been making money from forgeries for many centuries, and that the fakes, both high quality and bad, far outnumber the number of genuine works. I am very much enjoying learning from the contributions of Mikeoz, Guy, John R, and the professor you know. Would be nice to persuasively confirm the scroll, as Ito seems to be a reasonably prominent philosopher, but we aren't there yet. |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Jim N Tue, Jan 24, 2017 Hi Rat, |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: rat Wed, Jan 25, 2017 Wish I could be of more help, but know very little about Japanese art. |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Jim N Fri, Jan 27, 2017 Around 1950 or maybe a little bit earlier. It was purchased in Japan in 1955. Not a lot of wear and tear on it. |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: John R Wed, Jan 25, 2017 Jim |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: Jim N Fri, Jan 27, 2017 Hi John, |
Subject:Re: Help Identifing a Calligrapher
Posted By: rat Fri, Jan 27, 2017 Haha, that has to be you talking about the content of seal paste! right on |
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