Calligraphy – A Good Year

Name: Calligraphy – A Good Year
SKU: 3325
Price: 173.00 EUR
Availability: OutOfStock

Kakemono, unique work, 202 x 41 cm

Product number: 3325

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Details about the sold piece

Height 202 cm
Width 41 cm
Item Type Kakemono
Jikusaki Wood
Material Honshi Paper
Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
Technique Hand-Painted
Unique Work Yes

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Description

With four characters generously distributed across the paper, this calligraphy wishes the viewer a good, uneventful year, a motif that was traditionally painted and given as a gift at the turn of the year in Japan.

The brushwork is fluid and confident, the characters appear to have been written in a single stroke, lending the wish a spontaneous, heartfelt quality. Calligraphies of this kind were regarded as a blessing for health, peace, and a quiet year free of unfortunate incidents.

Framed by an understated border and mounted on paper with wooden jikusaki, this kakemono was presumably created in the Shôwa period and can still be unrolled on the wall today as an evocative New Year's greeting.

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