Album of Untrammeled Living, March 1933
Fukuda Kodōjinexpand_more
Ink on paperexpand_more
Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Cultureexpand_more 2013.29.935
Not on Viewexpand_more
The majority of Kodōjin’s albums date from the 1930s and follow the same format with a frontispiece, six leaves of alternating paintings and calligraphies, and a postscript. The paintings in this album are only rendered in ink. The postscript reads:
余以詩書画三拙自名焉此帖即是観者宜察微意所存不問其拙而可
I have named myself for poetry, calligraphy and painting, my "Three Clumsinesses!" This album is a perfect example. The viewer would do well to discern wherein my subtle meaning lies, without questioning the clumsiness.
Details
- Title
- Album of Untrammeled Living
- Artist Life
- 1865 - 1944
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2013.29.935
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Marks 2023, no. 82
- Curator Approved
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