ATTRIBUTED TO SHŪGETSU TŌKAN (C.1440-1529)

ATTRIBUTED TO SHŪGETSU TŌKAN (C.1440-1529)
SCHOLAR CONTEMPLATING THE MOON
MUROMACHI PERIOD (1333-1573), 16TH CENTURY

28cm x 34.5cm. (2)

Purchased from Milne Henderson Fine Art, London.

A Japanese kakejiku (hanging scroll painting), ink and light colours on paper, depicting a figure and his attendant by a waterfall in a mountainous landscape, gazing longingly at the moon above; with a very faint red pot seal lower right corner, possibly for Tōkan; the scroll with silk mounts; with a fitted tomobako wood box inscribed on the outside Shin sansui (True landscape), with an inscription attributing the painting to Shūgetsu Tōkan, and noting that the artist was the best pupil of Sesshū, and visited China with him; with a paper collection label with the red collector's seal of a Mr Fukada; 118.5cm x 50cm overall. (2)

Exhibited: Milne Henderson Fine Art, Scooping the clouds: Seven centuries of ink painting, 2001, London. Published in the exhibition catalogue, pp.28-29, no.7, where it is illustrated and discussed.