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KANO TESSAI: A WOOD SUZURIBAKO DEPICTING THE JUROKU RAKAN (SIXTEEN ARHATS), DATED 1904
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KANO TESSAI: A WOOD SUZURIBAKO DEPICTING THE JUROKU RAKAN (SIXTEEN ARHATS), DATED 1904

By Kano Tessai (1845-1925), signed Tessai zo with kakihan
Japan, dated 1904

Of rectangular form with canted edges, the inrobuta (flush-fitting cover) finely lacquered to heighten the natural wood grain and skillfully carved to depict the Sixteen Rakan, including Handaka Sonja riding a dragon as another rises from the alms bowl held in his hand; Bindorabaradaja Sonja holding his hossu atop a lion together with another rakan; Binzuru accompanied by an attendant holding his staff; Hattara Sonja on his tiger reading a scroll; followed by a procession of the other arhats. Housed within the integrated baseboard is a ceramic inkstone (suzuri) and silvered metal inkwell.

Inscribed to the left, ‘The light of the Buddhist pearl shines in the sky, not white, not blue, nor green or red. The poisonous dragon is lured to descend into the alms bowl, and it is impossible to say if the venerable monk has made a miraculous achievement’ 明珠光相耀長空,非白非青非綠紅,引得毒龍降鉢內,莫言尊者弄神通, and to the right, dated ‘The design is made with authority, on a great auspicious day in the fifth month of the year of kinoe-tatsu [1904]’, and with the signature TESSAI zo [made by Tessai] with a kakihan.

SIZE 23.7 x 20.5 x 3.6 cm

Condition: Good condition with minor wear, warping, old repairs.
Provenance: Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis, Chicago, Illinois. The suzuribako and tomobako each with an old label ‘Lewis Collection 46’. Drs. Edmund Jean and Julia Breyer Lewis are renowned experts in nephrology who met professionally and later married in 1997, and have since continued to collect Japanese art together, actively seeking the best they could find from the finest dealers in the field. Known for their keen scholarship and high aesthetic standards, for the past three decades Ed and Julie have focused on collecting lacquer art, painting, and Buddhist sculpture from Japan. As they traveled widely their desire to collect Buddhist art grew, and they have expanded their collection to include important Pan-religious sculpture from Greater Asia.

With a wood tomobako and a cloth cover finely decorated with dragons amid scrolling clouds. The tomobako inscribed to the top of the cover, ‘The image of arhat, suzuribako, made in the Teppitsu [‘iron nib’] method’, and to the interior ‘on a great auspicious day in the sixth month of the kinoe-tatsu [1904], inscribed with authority by TESSAI’.

Kano Tessai (1845-1925) was born in Gifu prefecture and studied calligraphy and painting at Buddhist temples. Soon after, he left the priesthood to fully immerse himself in the study of art. He traveled extensively across Japan examining famous artifacts housed in temple collections, particularly the collection of Bigaku, Gigaku, and Noh masks in Nara's Todaiji and Horyuji. When Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) arrived in Japan, Tessai accompanied him on his survey of the temples around Kyoto and Nara. He was present during the opening of Yumeidono at Horyuji when the Kudara Kannon was revealed to the world in 1884. In 1887 he was appointed professor of sculpture in the newly established Tokyo Art School but retired soon after to resume his life as an artist.

Auction comparison:
Compare a related wood tray by the same artist, 38.1 x 36.8 cm, at Bonhams, Fine Japanese Works of Art, 16 September 2009, New York, lot 3044 (sold for USD 2,196 or approx. EUR 3,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).

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