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A wood octagonal toro (portable lantern) Style of Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875), Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1871 (2) image 1
A wood octagonal toro (portable lantern) Style of Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875), Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1871 (2) image 2
Japanese Art
Lot 95*

A wood octagonal toro (portable lantern)
Style of Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875), Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1871

21 March 2018, 11:00 GMT
Edinburgh

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A wood octagonal toro (portable lantern)

Style of Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875), Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1871
Each side inserted with a silk panel, painted with a continuous scene of lotus leaves and flowers, the text of a poem alluding to spring allegedly written by the artist, spread across five panels, the sixth panel with the signature Rengetsu hachijusai (Rengetsu at the age of 80).
25.5cm x 18.2cm, and with wood storage box (2).

Footnotes

The poem reads:

Ikade waga /mune no hachisu mo / kaku bakari / hirake somenaba / ureshikaramashi Hachijusai

If somehow the lotus in my breast, too
would open like these budding [flowers]
how happy I would be. Age 80

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