Meme-zara Small 5 pc. Dish Set by Otagaki Rengetsu
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Earthenware: Pre 1900: Item # 1502011
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Earthenware: Pre 1900: Item # 1502011
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A set of 5 unique small dishes incised with poems by Otagaki Rengetsu enclosed in a period wooden storage box. Each is roughly 10 cm (4 inches) diameter, 2 cm (slightly less than 1 inch) tall and in overall fine condition. The poems read:
Yamazato no tsuki Gentlefolk of Miyako,
mi ni ki mase Miyakobito please come see the moon in my mountain village...
kado no hataimo ni te matsura nan. I'll serve you some potatoes from my garden
2.
Shiragiku no makura ni chikaku White chrysanthemums kaoru yo wa yume mo near my pillow scent the night... ikuyo no aki ka he nu ran. in my dream how many autumns did I pass through? 3.
Hi ni soi te medetaki fushi ya Day by day promising knots pile up―
kazou ran long life taking hold beside my hut
chiyo wo kome taru yado no wakatake in the young bamboo
4.
Irigata no migiri hidari ni From dusk the fragrance of plum
kaoru nari ume ya blooming everywhere— the sorrow of parting
nagori no ariake no tsuki the early morning moon
5.
Ori tachi te asana arae ba Coming down to wash my morning greens—
Kamogawa no kishi no yanagi ni from a willow at the Kamo riverbank
Uguisu no naku the song of a warbler.
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 5 unique small dishes incised with poems by Otagaki Rengetsu enclosed in a period wooden storage box. Each is roughly 10 cm (4 inches) diameter, 2 cm (slightly less than 1 inch) tall and in overall fine condition. The poems read:
mi ni ki mase Miyakobito please come see the moon in my mountain village...
kado no hataimo ni te matsura nan. I'll serve you some potatoes from my garden
2.
Shiragiku no makura ni chikaku White chrysanthemums kaoru yo wa yume mo near my pillow scent the night... ikuyo no aki ka he nu ran. in my dream how many autumns did I pass through? 3.
Hi ni soi te medetaki fushi ya Day by day promising knots pile up―
kazou ran long life taking hold beside my hut
chiyo wo kome taru yado no wakatake in the young bamboo
4.
Irigata no migiri hidari ni From dusk the fragrance of plum
kaoru nari ume ya blooming everywhere— the sorrow of parting
nagori no ariake no tsuki the early morning moon
5.
Ori tachi te asana arae ba Coming down to wash my morning greens—
Kamogawa no kishi no yanagi ni from a willow at the Kamo riverbank
Uguisu no naku the song of a warbler.
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.
