白繻子地墨竹図打掛　祇園南海筆, Overrobe (Uchikake) with Bamboo, Gion Nankai, first half of the 18th century

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白繻子地墨竹図打掛　祇園南海筆, Overrobe (Uchikake) with Bamboo, Edo period (1615–1868), first half of the 18th century, Japan, Ink and gold powder on silk satin, Overall: 64 3/4 x 48 7/8 in. ( x cm), Costumes, Gion Nankai (Japanese, 1677–1751), This rare uchikake is the work of Gion Nankai, a well-known poet and artist of the early Nanga movement. Bamboo, vividly painted here in light and dark ink and enhanced with a mist of gold powder, was a favored theme of Nanga artists, who were largely based in the Kyoto area and often had backgrounds in Confucian studies and Chinese literati theory

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