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ARIWARA KOGAN (1829-1922) Meiji era (1868-1912), dated circa 1904 (2) image 1
ARIWARA KOGAN (1829-1922) Meiji era (1868-1912), dated circa 1904 (2) image 2
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ARIWARA KOGAN (1829-1922)
Meiji era (1868-1912), dated circa 1904

16 May 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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ARIWARA KOGAN (1829-1922)

Meiji era (1868-1912), dated circa 1904
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on paper in silk mounts with ivory jikusaki, depicting scenes from Yatsuhashi (The Eight-Span Bridge), Episode 9 of Ise monogatari (The Tales of Ise): the lovelorn poet-courtier Ariwara no Narihira, his retinue in attendance, seated beneath a pine tree at the edge of a marsh composing his famous poem on irises; signed Gyonen nanajuroku Koganso Arihara Shigehisa (Koganso Arihara Shigehisa, aged 76), and sealed Shi-ge-hi-sa; with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed and signed Ise monogatari Yatsuhashi Meiji yonjuyonen natsubi gyonen hachijusan koganso Arihara Shigetoshi shi (The Eightfold Bridge from Tales of Ise, recorded in 1911 at the age of 83 by Arihara Shigetoshi) and sealed Kogan. Overall: 230cm x 86cm (90½in x 33¾in); image: 153cm x 70cm (60¼in x 27½in). (2).

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Ariwara Kogan (original family name: Shigehisa) trained in the traditional Japanese polychrome style under painters of the Sumiyoshi and Tosa lineages before setting up as an independent artist in 1873, exhibiting at the Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai (Domestic Industrial Promotion Exhibitions) of 1884 and 1890 and carrying out many commissions for the Imperial Household Agency. He is noted for his revival of the Tosa style and for his influence on the next generation of celebrated history painters, whose work dominated the national salon in the early twentieth century.

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