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Subject:Re: inscription on painting
Posted By: I.Nagy Sat, Apr 17, 2021
My tentative reading of inscriptions,
(Alternative kanas in modern transcription)
正親町公路
ほぼとみればうしかたあたまかな
いのりばかりにひけしべく
Ǒgimachi Kinmichi
Hobo to mireba ushi kata atama ka na
inori bakari ni hikeshibeku
Ǒgimachi Kinmichi*
If I look at him, his head is hard as the head of an ox
He has to spend his days in prayers
毛復圭九十一書
Written by the ninety-one years old Mō Fukukei
Seal,
囗器 - 囗ki
Mō Fukukei 毛復圭 is not a Japanese name, it could be a Chinese (Mao Fugui)
or Korean (Mo Bok-gyu) surname and given name.
*Ǒgimachi Kinmichi 1653-1733
Court minister and councilor,
He tried to spread the "Suika Shintō" (a combination of Neo-Confucian ideas with Shintō)to the imperial court with more less success.
With regards,
I.Nagy
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