Object number1987.20.60

The Priest Myotaku Appearing from a Screen

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Instructive Models of Lofty Ambition

Date1886

Artist Inoue Tankei (井上探景) (Japanese)

Publisher Matsuki Heikichi

CultureJapanese

MediumWoodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

DimensionsSheet: 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.56 x 24.13 cm)

Credit LineGift of Justine Lewis Keidel, class of 1937

Period19th c (Meiji period)

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, lower right, signed in block: 井上探景 (Inoue Tankei)

InscribedOn recto, upper margin, in block: 教導立志基 On recto, upper left, in scroll cartouche: 釋氏妙澤は慶安年間の人にして夢窓国師の徒弟（でし）なり。常に画図を好むを以て国師屡（しばしば）これを呵責すれども聞ず、ます／＼画事に耽り特（こと）に不動の像を巧にゑがきて其精神感得せしか自から画（ゑが）く不動の図中より火焔を発せしより国師も其筆力精妙なるに感じ終に許して呵責せざりし　楊柳橋畔月光述 On recto, lower margin, publishing and printing date in block: 御届明治十九年 (notification delivered, Meiji 19) On recto, lower margin, series margin in block: 八 (8) On recto, lower margin, publisher's information in block: 画工兼出版両国吉川町二番地松木平吉版 (artist and publisher Ryōgoku Yoshikawachō 2-banchi Matsuki Heikichi han)

MarkingsOn recto, lower right, artist's seal in block: 探景 (Tankei) On recto, lower margin, publisher's mark in block: 松木平吉 (Matsuki Heikichi)

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