Lot 242

No visible faults or damage


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Private Collection, Kyoto.
Bachmann Eckenstein Japanese Art, Basel, Switzerland, 2009. Inv. no. 1313.
Private Collection, Melbourne.

Black Robe White Mist: art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu, National Gallery of Australia, 8 Sep 2007—27 Jan 2008.

'Black Robe White Mist: art of the Japanese Buddhist nun Rengetsu', National Gallery of Australia exhibition catalogue, Melanie Eastburn, Lucie Folan, Robyn Maxwell (ed.), 2007, no.96, ill. p.78.

Tokuda Koen (b.1935) was the head Priest of Jinko-in Temple (a Shingon Buddhist temple in Kyoto), and the main authenticator of Rengetsu's works in modern times.