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Chinease or Japanese literati painting?

Posted By: rat
Posted Date: Nov 20, 2015 (10:17 AM)

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Yes, definitely Japanese, but I think you are mistaking the inscription for a Japanese artist's name. 長洲 is an old name for modern-day Suzhou. 王式 is the “artist's“ name. Wang Shi was apparently an early Qing painter known for his figure painting. The painting's "seal" has the 王式 name written in, as Japanese copies sometimes do. The red (Japanese-style) seal asserts that the painting was in the Tani collection, about which I am totally ignorant. The person who painted this, whether from actual Wang Shi album leaves or from some other Chinese example to which the Wang Shi signature was added, did not include his/her own signature.


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