NihontoWatchNihontoWatchThis work is a kozuka with a Garyu Tensei design, originating from the painter Zhang Sengyou of the Northern and Southern dynasties period in China. The Garyu Tensei legend tells that when Zhang Sengyou painted dragons, he did not add the eyes because he believed they would fly away if he did; however, when entreated by people to paint the eyes, the dragons immediately gained life and ascended to the heavens. On a shakudo nanako-ji, the painter creating the image and a dragon soaring through the clouds are depicted in takabori iroe. The painter faces the screen, and a dragon that seems to have emerged from it flies accompanied by clouds. It is a work rich in conceptual flair, expressing on a kozuka the moment the dragon in the painting gains life and leaps into the real world. Today, Garyu Tensei is an idiomatic expression used to mean "the final important finishing touch that completes a thing," but this kozuka skillfully portrays the very scene that became the origin of the phrase.
NihontoWatchOffered by Touken Matsumoto
Edo
Yamashiro
Unsigned
Hozon (NBTHK)
As written by the shop
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¥90,000