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Sunset over Musashi Plain, Momoyama (1573-1615) or Edo (1615-1868) Period, 17th centuryA six-panel folding screen painted in ink, mineral pigments, and gold on paper applied with gold leaf, depicting a red sun setting over Musashino (Musashi Plain), with autumn plants including susuki (pampas grass), ominaeshi (valerian), hagi (bush clover), kiku (chrysanthemum), and kikyo (Chinese bellflower) above a band of gold mist; unsigned. Each panel 170.3cm (67in) high x 64cm (25 1/8in) wide.
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日本桃山或江戶時代,十七世紀 武藏平原日落 紙本設色 金箔地六折屏風Provenance: Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 18 June 1991, lot 2110 (front cover)An important European private collection來源:舊金山Butterfield & Butterfield拍賣行,1991年6月18日,拍品編號2110(封面拍品)歐洲重要私人收藏For a related example, see a seventeenth-century two-panel screen of Musashino at Sunset, Peggy and Richard M. Danziger Collection; see Rosina Buckland, Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections, exh.cat., New York, Asia Society, 2004, cat.no.14 (image accessible at http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/japanesescreens/scr08.html) Some seven centuries before this screen was painted, Musashi Plain to the west and north of Edo (present-day Tokyo) had already entered the Japanese artistic imagination as a wild, distant, and featureless place. An episode from the tenth-century Ise monogatari (The Ise Stories), for example, tells how the exiled courtier hero and his lover hide in its grasses before being flushed out by the threat of a fire set by the Governor's men. Screens depicting Musashino with nothing but grasses and the moon—rather than the sun—first appeared in the later Muromachi Period (133-1573), before the move of a substantial part of Japan's elite population to the growing metropolis of Edo made the plain an actual rather than an imaginary location. In response to this increased awareness, painters in different traditions took up the challenge of depicting the eerie yet beautiful wilderness, sometime adding a wider range of canonical autumn plants or rarely and dramatically, as here and in the example cited above, even replacing the moon with the sun.
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