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NAGASAWA ROSETSU (1754 — 1799)
A fighting cockerel, Shamo
Edo period, circa 1795
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NAGASAWA ROSETSU (1754 — 1799)
A fighting cockerel, Shamo
Edo period, circa 1795
A Japanese hanging scroll painting,
kakejiku
,
ink and colour on silk, with a realistically depicted fierce-looking fighting
cockerel by a rugged rock beneath a blooming cherry tree, signed
Rosetsu
and sealed
Gyo
.
Image 111cm x 49.5cm; total 64cm x 206cm
Provenance: the Claudio Perino Collection, Turin, acquired mostly in Japan in early 2000s.
Exhibited: MAO Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin, and MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano,
2020 - 2022.
Literature: featured in the exhibition catalogue
Kakemono, Five centiuries of Japanese painting. The Perino Collection
, p. 34, no 7.
Cockerel fights were a popular gambling pastime in Edo period and
Shamo
- the name derived from Siam -
is a type of domestic fowl imported from Thailand in early 17th century. The birds have been selectively bred for several hundred years and prized for their endurance and fighting spirit. The chicken depicted in the current painting is shown in a tense pose as if ready to pounce at a rival bird. It is spring as indicated by the blooming sakura tree and in bird calendar- a time to find a mate. The small feathers scattered around his feet suggest the altercation has already been in progress. The scroll is potentially a pair to another painting, most likely lost, but still able to tell the snippet of the story unfolding in front of us.
Rosetsu came from a line of a low-ranking samurai family and travelled to Kyoto to join the studio of Maruyama Ōkyo. His character was too big for the Maruyama school and the young painter left, finding employment with the feudal lord of Yodo and occasionally completing a commission for various temples. Similarly to Itō Jakuchū, Rosetsu has been a lay Zen pupil. The inspiration with Zenga is clearly visible in the more freely executed of Rosetsu's paintings.
His paintings are part of a number of important private and museum collections, such as the British Museum in London, the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Fuji Art Museum to name a few.
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