Over Robe (Uchikake) with Bamboo first half of the 18th century Gion Nankai Japanese This rare uchikake is the work of Gion Nankai, a well-known poet and painter of the early Nanga (Literati) movement, which had roots in Chinese painting traditions and Confucian studies. Bamboo, vividly painted here in light and dark ink enhanced with a mist of gold powder, was a favored subject of Nanga artists who were largely based in the Kyoto area. Karakane K?ry? (1675–1738), a merchant and literary scholar from Izumi Sano (present- day Osaka), commissioned this over robe for one of his concubines; it was

Over Robe (Uchikake) with Bamboo first half of the 18th century Gion Nankai Japanese This rare uchikake is the work of Gion Nankai, a well-known poet and painter of the early Nanga (Literati) movement, which had roots in Chinese painting traditions and Confucian studies. Bamboo, vividly painted here in light and dark ink enhanced with a mist of gold powder, was a favored subject of Nanga artists who were largely based in the Kyoto area. Karakane K?ry? (1675–1738), a merchant and literary scholar from Izumi Sano (present- day Osaka), commissioned this over robe for one of his concubines; it was thereafter treasured as a family heirloom. In 1824, on the occasion of the marriage of one of K?ry?’s great-granddaughters, the literati poet Rai San’y? (1780–1832) wrote a laudatory kanshi (a poem written entirely in Chinese characters) about the unsigned garment, thereby establishing its Over Robe (Uchikake) with Bamboo. Gion Nankai (Japanese, 1677–1751). Japan. first half of the 18th century. Ink and gold powder on silk satin. Edo period (1615–1868). Costumes

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