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Mori Kansai 森寛斎

Album of paintings

Maker

Mori Kansai 森寛斎 (1814-1894, b. in Hagi, Japan

Title

Album of paintings

Period

Meiji

Year

1873

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

ink, gold

Supports

paper

Geography

Origin: Japan

Dimensions

26.7 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7/8 inches); Album: 26 x 21.9 cm (10 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches); Paintings: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Signed "Kansai sho-o Mori Koshuku hitsu" ("the brush of the old woodcutter Kansai Mori Koshuku") in two (2) columns along right margin.

Seals: dated 1873.10 on eighth leaf; each sealed (Kansai) (Koshuku)

Label: Back: White oval label with inscription in black ink in the top left corner: Collections de la Chine et du Japon/cc272/AN/No. 2388/Rue St George, 14, Paris

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Elizabeth T. and Dorothy N. Casey Fund

Object Number

2001.16

Type

Paintings

Exhibition History

An Abundance of Color

Spring Blossoms

Mar 05, 2004 – May 30, 2004

Korin Gafu and the Rimpa Tradition in Japanese Printmaking

Mar 08, 2002 – Jun 02, 2002

Label copy

This wonderful painting is Kansai’s statement in the Rimpa style. Note how effectively he uses the tarashikomi technique, in which a drop of color would be added to a select area (often green on black) before that area had dried completely, allowing the two pigments to blend together in slightly unpredictable and uncontrolled ways.

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Tombstone

Mori Kansai 森寛斎 (1814-1894, b. in Hagi, Japan
worked in Japan)

Album of paintings, 1873

ink, color and gold on silk; versos stenciled in blue

26.7 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7/8 inches)<br>Album: 26 x 21.9 cm (10 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches)<br>Paintings: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 inches)

Elizabeth T. and Dorothy N. Casey Fund 2001.16

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