Mount Hōrai
Sold – no longer available
This piece was a handmade one-of-a-kind work. It cannot be reordered and will never exist in this form again. The page stays online as part of our archive.
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Details about the sold piece
- Height 132 cm
- Width 70 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Sculpture
- Material Honshi Silk
- Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
- Wooden Box Yes
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Description
Amid rugged rock peaks rising as if out of the mist, this vividly colored kakemono depicts a magnificent palace with brilliant red and gold roofs, while two cranes fly across the sky before a small red sun. The strong colors and the clear, almost stage-like composition lend the scene a fairy-tale, otherworldly character.
Depicted here is legendary Mount Hōrai, in Japanese and Chinese mythology the abode of the immortals and a symbol of eternal life, happiness, and prosperity. Cranes are traditionally regarded as messengers of this paradisiacal world and are often depicted together with the mountain.
The work is painted on silk, the jikusaki is made of plastic, created in the Shōwa period. This kakemono comes in a wooden box (tomobako) signed by the artist and, with its luminous coloring, is a particularly festive eye-catcher for any collection.
