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MATSUKAWA HANZAN: SURIMONO OF THE TALE OF THE BAMBOO CUTTER
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2023年12月01日 开拍 / 2023年11月29日 截止委托
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MATSUKAWA HANZAN: SURIMONO OF THE TALE OF THE BAMBOO CUTTER

By Matsukawa Hanzan (1818-1888), signed Matsukawa Hazan
Japan, 19th century

Haikai color woodblock print and blind stamping on partially textured paper. Obosho format. Signed Suieido Hanzan and sealed. Titled the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori Monogatari i).

The lower right-hand register depicts the elderly bamboo cutter, his face set with exceedingly jubilant expression, carrying the swaddled and radiating princess Kaguya-hime from the bamboo grove.

SIZE of the sheet 37.4 x 50.5 cm

Condition: Good impression with bright colors. Minor wear, some foxing, some crease and folding lines, overall presenting well.
Provenance: Collection of Robert and Isabelle de Strycker. Inside the passepartout inscribed, ‘Poèmes d’eleves de Bante Takimare fame prof. de danse pour la arigratuler. Taketou portaut la jeuue Teruko.’ Robert de Strycker (1903-1968) was a French engineer who specialized in metallurgy. He was a Stanford graduate, a professor at the University of Leuven, a director of the Institute of Metallurgy at the Université Catholique de Louvain, and one of the most influential members of the faculty of applied sciences. After World War II, he made large contributions to France’s post-war recovery. Robert and his wife Isabelle (1915-2010) first encountered Chinese art at the British Museum during a stay in London in the 1930s. Enamored with the style and beauty, they both decided to study and collect Japanese and Chinese works of art. In 1938 they eventually began to build their collection, buying from Belgian, Parisian, and English dealers. They kept close contact with the famous English collector Sir Harry Garner (1891-1977) and noted Czech collector and expert Fritz Low-Beer (1906-1976). In 1964, the couple lent 174 objects from their collection to the Belgian city of Leuven’s museum for an exhibition titled Oude kunst in Leuvens Privébezit (‘Old Art in Private Collections in Leuven’), and in 1967 they lent around thirty Japanese objects to the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels for their exhibition Kunst van Japan im belgischen Privatverzameingen (‘Japanese Art in Belgian Private Collections’).

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered the oldest surviving monogatari, and though its exact date of composition is unknown, the oldest surviving manuscript dates back to 1592. It tells the story of Kaguya-hime, princess from the moon, who was found as a baby inside a bamboo stalk by an old bamboo harvester. The bamboo cutter, Taketori no Okina, and his wife raised the princess as their own. After discovering the princess, the harvester is blessed with immense wealth, finding a nugget of gold in every bamboo stalk he cuts after finding Kaguya-hime. The young girl grows up to be the most beautiful woman in all of Japan. Suitors come from far and wide to compete for her hand, but none can complete the difficult tasks she puts before them. Finding no suitor, the princess returns to her heavenly realm.

Museum comparison:
Compare a related suimono print with floral blossoms and a poem, by Matsukawa Hanzan and stamped with the identical seal, in the British Museum, accession number 2018,3007.17.

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