Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 15

Antique Japanese Ink Hanging Scroll Hidaka Tetsuo with Wood Storage Box

$5,500
£4,199.23
€4,852.17
CA$7,720.96
A$8,605.81
CHF 4,515.17
MX$105,091.01
NOK 57,171.93
SEK 54,036.17
DKK 36,213.84

About the Item

A hanging ink (Sumi-e) silk scroll by Japanese Zen artist Hidaka Tetsuo (1791-1871). Well presented in brocade boarders and mounted on paperback, this scroll depicts "Three Noble Friends in Winter" in a poetic and novel way. One of the favorite subjects by Chinese painters, the three noble friends in winter consists of pine, bamboo and plum flowers. They were admired for their characters of strength in cold resistance to remain evergreen and even blossom in unfavorable condition. The artist, however, composited the subjects in a none-conventional way as Ikebana. Bamboo and flowering plum branches were presented in an oversized pot. The pine, curiously, seems to be absent at first, but a closer look sees a branched plant at the foot of the pot that resembles a small pine, but also with a morphed appearance of "Lingzhi" mushroom, the symbol of longevity. It appears to be the artist's intention to expose the symbolism by transcending the reality of imagery. The scroll was signed with title and name in cursive Kanji and marked with two artist's red seals. Image is 49" x 18". The full length of the scroll measure 80" x 26". A later customed collector box retains the collector's label in both Kanji and English as shown. Tetsuo was a monk of Zen-sect who painted in Chinese ink style. He was born in Nagasaki and studied painting under Yushi Ishizaki and Kaho Koh. He was known as one of the three great painters in Nagasaki prefecture (the other two are Gomon Miura and Itsuun Kinoshita). Similar ink painting on fans by the artist are held in the collection of Seattle Art Museum (92.47.323.15) and British Museum (1973.0226.0.91 and 1973.0226.0.89).
  • Creator:
    Hidaka Tetsuo (Artist)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 3.5 in (8.89 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
  • Style:
    Japonisme (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    19th Century
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use. Fine condition, some surface wrinkles expected from the medium/mount.
  • Seller Location:
    Atlanta, GA
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU945028247172

More From This Seller

View All
Japanese Silk Scroll Painting of Moneys Edo Period Mori Tetsuzan
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese mounted vertical hanging scroll painting by Mori Tetsuzan (Japanese, 1775-1841) circa 19th century Edo period. The watercolor and ink on silk ...
Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk, Paper

Antique Japanese Hanging Scroll Attributed to Iwasa Matabei
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique ink and color on paper hanging scroll (kakejiku) with brocade border. It appears to be a fragment of a larger hand scroll depicting a procession of a lord with his entoura...
Category

Antique Early 17th Century Japanese Japonisme Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk, Paper

Japanese Silk Scroll by Haruki Nanmei Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese hanging silk scroll by late Edo period painter Haruki Nanmei (1795-1878). The gouache painting was in the tradition of Kano school and depicts an old scholar dressed in lo...
Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk, Paper

Pair of Japanese Ink Hanging Scrolls Kano Tanyu
By Kano Tan'yu 1
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine matching pair of hanging scrolls ink on paper mounted in green brocade borders circa Edo period (17-18th century). The Kano school painting depicts wild geese in the reeds by the margin of water, a popular subject borrowed from the Chinese tradition. Both painting were signed as Tanyu with a red seal of Morinobu, his birth name. The storage box is also present and was inscribed with the title Painting of Geese and Reeds and Kano Tanyu...
Category

Antique Late 17th Century Japanese Japonisme Paintings and Screens

Materials

Wood, Paper

Japanese Ink and Wash Scroll Painting by Watanabe Seitei
Located in Atlanta, GA
Watanabe Seitei, also known as Watanabe Shotei (1851–1918), was born in late Edo period. He was one of the earliest Japanese artists who visited and be...
Category

Antique Early 1900s Japanese Japonisme Paintings and Screens

Materials

Brocade, Silk, Paper

Large Antique Zen Japanese Ink Scroll After Sesson Shukei
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Japanese Sumi ink painting with light color wash mounted with brocade borders as a hanging scroll (Kakejiku). The painting depicts the famously eccentric Buddhist monks Hanshan and Shide (known in Japan as Kanzan and Jittoku). Often as a pair, they have been a popular motif in Japanese Zen painting...
Category

Antique 18th Century Japanese Japonisme Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk, Paper

You May Also Like

Japanese Hanging Scroll, Late 19th Century
Located in New York, NY
A Japanese hanging scroll or Kakejiku, circa 1890, depicting bamboo grass and a rabbit, framed by top and bottom ribbons of brocade silk. In ...
Category

Antique 1890s Japanese Meiji Paintings

Materials

Silk, Paper

Antique Japanese 18th c Edo Scroll [Kano Baisho Nihonga Landscape Painting
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
This is a ``Rising Sun and Pine Tree'' drawn by Kano Baisho. It is an item with a solemn taste and presence, and I think it would be a good idea to display it at New Year's, the fir...
Category

Antique 18th Century Edo Paintings

Materials

Silk

Japanese Nihonga Painting 19th c Edo Scroll by Seiki Yokoyama Landscape Shijo
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
[Authentic work] ◆ Seiki Yokoyama ◆ Landscape ◆ Rural landscape ◆ Japanese painting ◆ Shijo school ◆ Hand-painted ◆ Paperback ◆ Hanging scroll ◆ Seiki Yokoyama [Art yearbook appra...
Category

Antique 19th Century Edo Paintings

Materials

Silk

Japanese Painting Showa Period Scroll by Bisen Fukuda Ink Landscape
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
[Authentic Artwork] ◆ Bisen Fukuda ◆ Chinese Landscape ◆ Lake Dongting ◆ Illustration of the Great Dongting ◆ Box ◆ Handpainted ◆ Paper ◆ Hanging Scroll ◆ Explore the artistic world...
Category

Vintage 1950s Taisho Paintings

Materials

Silk

Japanese Painting, Hanging Scroll, 19th Century Bamboo in Moonlight
Located in Kyoto, JP
Bamboo in moonlight Gamo Rakan (1784-1866) Hanging scroll, ink on silk. Dimensions: Scroll: 201 cm x 58 cm Image: 137 cm x 45 cm In this early 19th century work by Gamo Rakan a light ink wash applied to the silk background silhouettes the moon and suggests the atmosphere of early evening. Even though it is a literati subject, Rakan’s bamboo is quite realistic with a strong decorative style. The painting finds its inspiration from Chinese Ming dynasty painters who often used a single-tone, jet black stroke to emphasize the calligraphic nature of bamboo. In a different era, decorative would have been seen as somewhat unrefined. But increasingly in the Edo period, it was the hallmark of high style. The Japanese people, in particular the rising merchant class, had gradually become apathetic toward the traditional Sesshu and Kano schools of painting. Chinese professional and amateur painters living in the port of Nagasaki during the 18th century had a profound effect on Japanese painting and the freshness of their style and its decorative appeal contributed greatly to its popularity. Gamo Rakan’s teacher, Tani Buncho...
Category

Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

Japanese Painting Taisho / Showa Period Scroll by Torei Ogita Nanga Landscape
Located in Amsterdam, Noord Holland
[Authentic work] ◆ Torei Ogita ◆ fishing boat ◆ Double box ◆ Master: Komuro Sogumo ◆ Tochigi Prefecture ◆ Hand-painted ◆ Silk ◆ Hanging scroll ◆ Torei Ogita 1899 ~Died in 1979 at t...
Category

Vintage 1930s Taisho Paintings

Materials

Silk