Salt Carrier in Front of Fuji
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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 180 cm
- Width 66 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Bone
- Material Honshi Paper
- Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
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Description
With a carrying pole across her shoulders and two wooden buckets, the depicted woman balances at the seashore, while snow-capped Fuji rises majestically in the background. This scene recalls the classical legend of the salt gatherers, a motif recurring throughout the Japanese tradition of theater and painting.
The elaborately patterned robe in orange and violet, together with the distinctive hat, testify to great painterly care, while the gnarled pine in the foreground and the gentle waves of the sea harmoniously round off the composition. The work was created in the Shôwa period (1926–1989) on paper.
The jikusaki is made of bone and lends the classical mounting a particularly high-quality appearance. A poetic kakemono rich in motifs, impressively showing the close connection of landscape, legend, and art in Japanese painting.
