Lot 2008 Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858), Seven Grasses of Autumn (Aki no nanakusa), Edo period, early 19th century | 鈴木其一　秋七草　江戸時代末期　19世紀初頭

Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858), Seven Grasses of Autumn (Aki no nanakusa), Edo period, early 19th century | 鈴木其一　秋七草　江戸時代末期　19世紀初頭

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Minor toning, there are a few very minor marks including a faint mark to the upper left quadrant, a few very small areas of minor wear to the silk, the silk mount with some minor toning and minor old wear consistent with age, the scroll ends have been removed.

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hanging scroll: ink, colour, gold and gofun on silk, signed Kaikai Kiitsu, sealed Shukurin, circa 1844, silk brocade border, accompanied with a fitted wood storage box
51.3 x 84.2 cm.
来源：Manno Museum of Art, Osaka
展览：Manno korekushon Rimpa ten [Rimpa from the Manno Collection], Manno Art Museum 1988, cat. no. 25.
Manno korekushon no meihin ikkyo kokai Rimpa to chadogu [Masterpieces from the Manno Collection: Rimpa and Tea Ceremony Utensils], Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2001, cat. no. 29.
Rimpa no seika [The Essence of Rimpa], Okada Museum of Art, Hakone, 2015, cat. no. 59.
Bi no suta-tachi Korin Jakuchu Hokusai joyo nado meihin zoroi [5th Anniversary Exhibition. All-Stars of the Okada Collection: Masterworks of Korin, Jakuchu, Hokusai and the Ru Ware Kilns], Okada Museum of Art, Hakone, 2018-19, exh. no. 452 (unillustrated).
著录：Kobayashi Tadashi ed., Rimpa [The Rimpa School], vol. 2, Tokyo, 1990, no. 216.
Kobayashi Tadashi ed., Masterpieces of the Okada Museum of Art, vol. 1, Tokyo, 2019, no. 101.
图录
说明：The seven grasses of autumn (aki no nanakusa): from the right, white bush clover (hagi) blossoms vie with the large leaves of red-blossoming kudzu vine (kuzu) and a spray of pale purple flowers of long-stemmed thoroughwort (fujibakama); morning glories and pink dianthus occupy the lower centre beside yellow patrinia (ominaeshi) and red-plumed Japanese pampas grass (susuki). The blue of the morning glories is rendered in sparkling ultramarine gunjo pigment, while the leaves of the bush clover are finely worked in tarashikomi (‘dripped in’ pigment over a still-wet surface).
The convention of the seven autumn flowers originates from a pair of poems by Yamanoue no Okura (circa 660-733) in the Man'yoshu [lit. Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves]:
Flowers blossoming in autumn fields –
when I count them on my fingers
they number seven.
The flowers of bush clover,
eulalia, arrowroot,
pink dianthus, patrinia,
also thoroughwort,
and morning faces flower.¹
Aki no no ni
sakitaru hana o
yubi orite
kaki kazoureba
nana kusa no hana.
Hagi ga hana
obana kuzubana
nadeshiko no hana
ominaeshi
mata fujibakama
asagao no hana.
Kiitsu was the foremost pupil of Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1824) [see Lot 2117]. He used the artistic name Kaikai from his late thirties into his forties during the Tenpo era (1830-44), a period in which he produced several accomplished works balancing naturalistic observation with decorative effect. The present painting is accompanied by a box bearing the artist's own inscription. The wrapping cloth bears a dated inscription Tenpo jugo kinoe tatsu toshi haru [spring of 1844] written by the scroll's owner, Tokuko. The work was formerly in the collection of the Manno Art Museum, Osaka.
1. Yamanoue no Okura, Man'yoshu, Book 8, poems 1537–1538.
來源
萬野美術館，大阪
展覽
《萬野コレクション 琳派展》，萬野美術館，大阪，1988年，編號25
《萬野コレクションの名品一挙公開 琳派と茶道具》，サントリー美術館，東京，2001年，編號29
《琳派の精華》，岡田美術館，箱根，2015年，編號59
《美のスターたち-光琳・若冲・北斎・汝窯など名品ぞろい-》，岡田美術館，箱根， 2018-19年，展覽編號452（沒載圖）
出版
小林忠編，《琳派》，卷2 花鳥II，東京，1990年，編號216
小林忠編，《岡田美術館名品撰》，卷1，東京，2019年，編號101
秋之七草：從畫面右側起，白色的萩花（hagi），與開著紅花的葛藤（kuzu）的巨大葉片，以及一簇淡紫色的復亦藤袴澤蘭花（fujibakama）爭奇鬥豔；牽牛花與粉紅色的撫子（即石竹）佔據了中下方，旁邊是黃色的女郎花（ominaeshi）與紅穗的日本芒草（susuki）。牽牛花的藍色以閃耀的群青（gunjo）顏料繪就，而萩花的葉片則精緻地運用了「溜込」技法（一種在未乾的畫面上滴入顏料的技法）。
秋之七草的傳統源自山上憶良（約660-733年）在《萬葉集》中的兩首和歌：
「秋野爾　咲有花乎　指折　可伎數者　七種花」
「芽之花　乎花葛花　瞿麥之花　姫部志　又藤袴　朝皃之花」
鈴木其一是酒井抱一（1761-1824年）[見拍品編號2117]的首席弟子，也是其家臣。他在三十多歲末至四十多歲的天保年間（1830-1844年）使用「噲噲」為畫號，在此期間他創作了多幅完美平衡自然觀察與裝飾效果的傑作。本畫作附有一個帶有藝術家親筆題識的木盒。包布上帶有畫軸主人 所寫的紀年題識「天保十五甲辰年春」（1844年春）。此作曾為大阪萬野美術館之舊藏。
1. 山上憶良，《萬葉集》，卷八，第1537至1538首。