Currently not on view
Summer Gift,
1845
Uragami Shunkin 浦上春琴
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2007-94
Information
Title
Summer Gift
Dates
1845
Maker
Medium
Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
26 × 785.6 cm (10 1/4 × 309 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2007-94
Place Made
Asia, Japan
Inscription
Inscribed left: 乙巳六月寓於石山精舍為
桂堂上人作此卷時溽暑如
燃然朝起「」窓与
上人烹茗日對此好風景何
識炎威逼人乎遂任筆
成此長卷他日 上人披
復亦為一嘆幸甚
六十七翁睡庵紀選
During the sixth lunar month of the year 1845, while staying in the Sekizan Meditation Center, I did this scroll for Keido Shonin. At that time the weather was hot as fire, so, rising at dawn, I opened a window and together with Shonin brewed tea. Facing this view all day, how could one long scroll so that in the future, each time Shonin unrolls the scroll, he will have the great pleasure of another laugh. Suian Kisen睡庵紀選 [i.e., Shunkin] at the age of sixty-six (67 年).
Marks/Labels/Seals
Five characters in ink on wooden case
Four characters in ink on label adhered to wooden case
Sticker on end of right knob: SHUNKIN / [2683] / 1845
Artist, “Suiboku shinsen” 水墨神仙 ("Water and Ink Immortal"), oval relief
Artist, “Suian rōjin” 睡庵老人 (Old Man of the Pavilion of Sleepiness), square intaglio
Artist, “Biun kōsui” 微雲好水 (Sparse Clouds and Pleasing Water), square relief
Culture
Period
Materials
–2007 Kaikodo Gallery (New York, NY), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2007.
