Item number
3999CO
Name
Grande Orb
Extended Name
Autumn Maples With Poem Slips
Ornament Code(s)
(JA)
Ornament Type(s)
Orb/Ball, Regular Size
Edition Type(s)
Complimentary Ornament
Year Made
2019
Holiday
Other
Ornament Details/Notes
Continuing for 2019...the studio will do monthly drawings for each participating store. Retailers that participate will submit names of collectors who have made paid purchases and one lucky winner will be drawn for each store. This is all done at the studio. The retailers are then notified of the winners. This will take place at the end of each month until the end of the year.
This ornament was won in 2019 and also in 2020!
Tosa Mitsuoki
Japanese, 1617-1691
ABOUT THIS ARTWORK
Japanese aristocrats engaged in the elegant custom of recollecting classical poetry while viewing spring and autumn foliage. In these delicate screens, premier court painter Tosa Mitsuoki meditated on the inevitable passage of beauty by depicting the melancholy hours after the departure of reveling courtiers. A cherry tree bursts into bloom on the right screen (seen here at top), while its mate displays the brilliant red and gold foliage of maples in autumn. Slips of poetry, called tanzaku, waft from the blossoming limbs, the lingering signs of a human presence. Courtiers (whose names are recorded in a seventeenth-century document) assisted Mitsuoki by inscribing the narrow strips with quotations of appropriate seasonal poetry from twelfth- and thirteenth-century anthologies. The screens were either commissioned by or given to Tofukumon’in (1607–1678), a daughter of the Tokugawa shogun who married the emperor Gomizunoo (1596–1680). In an era otherwise marked by increasing control of the feudal shogunate over imperial prerogatives, this royal couple encouraged a renaissance of courtly taste that nostalgically evoked the past glories of early medieval aristocratic life.
Height
3.54
Average Retail Price
$0.00
Collector Keys
Art, Flowers, Gold
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