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| Notes (this edition) These notes were written by the original owner/seller/auctioner of the item and may be inaccurate.: | Saturday, 27 August 2005 Title Lady in winter Artist Keishu Takeuchi 1861-1942 Seal keishu Dated 1911 Publisher Bungei Kurabu Technique/Medium Woodblock print Impression good Colors very good Condition very good … slightly soiled background, two horizontal folds as usual for kuchi-e, a worm track (1/2 inch long) on the upper right background, album backing (Meiji). Description "Marishiten" A kuchi-e (book illustration) for a story published in Bungei Kurabu, a very popular literature magazine. The backward Swastika on the background is a traditional Buddhist symbol. Width 8.5 inches = 21.5 cm Height 11.4 inches = 29.0 cm |
TAKEUCHI KEISHU A frontispiece of a novel, 1911 Good impression and condition, original fold line, slightly stained on top 30.4x21.5cm. 7,000 YEN |
Sunday, 6 February 2005 Artist: Takeuchi, Keishu Date: c. 1910 Description: Kuchi-e, Marici Bodhisattva Image Size: approx. 8" x 11.5" UK#: K105 "Marici is a bodhisattva in the Buddhist pantheon whose vehicle is the boar. In the kuchi-e Marici Bodhisattva by Takeuchi Keishu, a young woman is shown visiting the temple to Marici to pray for good fortune. She is walking past a container for offerings that is surmounted by wooden buckets of water for fire fighting. The second character for the word hono, meaning offering, can be seen on the container. Appropriately, the image of a boar, the zodiac animal for 1911, also adorns the offering container. The arms on the Buddhist swastika turn in the opposite direction from the German. Originally the Oriental emblem was written on the chest of Vishnu and Buddha and meant good fortune." |