Set five Sake Cups with poems by Otagaki Rengetsu
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900: Item # 1493650
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Kita-ward Kyoto 603-8216
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A set of five sake cups, each engraved with a unique poem by the artist/nun Otagaki Rengetsu dating from her 83rd year enclosed in an antique Sarasa cloth pouch with silk pads between enclosed in an old wooden box. They are each 5 cm (2 inches) diameter and all are in excellent condition. The poems read:
1 Wakabae no yanagi no ito no mijikaku te furiwakegami no kokochi koso sure
The newborn willow fronds are short and feel to me just like bobbed hair
2 Umazake no miwa no sugi zu ba kore zo kono oi zu shina zu no kusuri nara mashi
Fine sake in balance becomes an elixir for perpetual youth and long life
3 Asakaze ni ubara kaori te hototogisu naku ya uzuki no shiga no yamasato
On the morning breeze the scent of rambler roses...a cuckoo cries crossing Uzuki over Shiga Mountain Villages
4 Kawazoi no yanagi no ito ni kakari keri nokoru koori no kataware no tsuki
In the willow fronds along the riverbank caught like lingering ice—a half moon
5 Tanazoko wo uke te matsu ma mo chiyo ya hen nome ba wakayu to kiku no shitatsuyu
In my palms waiting for eons to pass...I hear drinking this will make me younger—the chrysanthemums' hanging dew
Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) was born into a samurai family, she was adopted into the Otagaki family soon after birth, and served as a lady in waiting in Kameoka Castle in her formative years, where she received an education worthy of a Lady of means. Reputed to be incredibly beautiful, she was married and bore three children; however, her husband and all children died before she was twenty. Remarried she bore another daughter, however that child too perished and her husband died while she was just 32. Inconsolable, she cut off her hair to join the nunnery at Chion-in Temple, where she renounced the world and received the name Rengetsu (Lotus Moon). However, this was not the end, but only the beginning of a career as artist and poet which would propel her to the top of the 19th century Japan literati art world.
A set of five sake cups, each engraved with a unique poem by the artist/nun Otagaki Rengetsu dating from her 83rd year enclosed in an antique Sarasa cloth pouch with silk pads between enclosed in an old wooden box. They are each 5 cm (2 inches) diameter and all are in excellent condition. The poems read:
1 Wakabae no yanagi no ito no mijikaku te furiwakegami no kokochi koso sure
The newborn willow fronds are short and feel to me just like bobbed hair
2 Umazake no miwa no sugi zu ba kore zo kono oi zu shina zu no kusuri nara mashi
Fine sake in balance becomes an elixir for perpetual youth and long life
3 Asakaze ni ubara kaori te hototogisu naku ya uzuki no shiga no yamasato
On the morning breeze the scent of rambler roses...a cuckoo cries crossing Uzuki over Shiga Mountain Villages
4 Kawazoi no yanagi no ito ni kakari keri nokoru koori no kataware no tsuki
In the willow fronds along the riverbank caught like lingering ice—a half moon
5 Tanazoko wo uke te matsu ma mo chiyo ya hen nome ba wakayu to kiku no shitatsuyu
In my palms waiting for eons to pass...I hear drinking this will make me younger—the chrysanthemums' hanging dew
Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875) was born into a samurai family, she was adopted into the Otagaki family soon after birth, and served as a lady in waiting in Kameoka Castle in her formative years, where she received an education worthy of a Lady of means. Reputed to be incredibly beautiful, she was married and bore three children; however, her husband and all children died before she was twenty. Remarried she bore another daughter, however that child too perished and her husband died while she was just 32. Inconsolable, she cut off her hair to join the nunnery at Chion-in Temple, where she renounced the world and received the name Rengetsu (Lotus Moon). However, this was not the end, but only the beginning of a career as artist and poet which would propel her to the top of the 19th century Japan literati art world.
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