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| Hirose Tanso, Nigyo-sho, Chinese poem |
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| Item No | #108000570 |
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| Item | Kakejiku(Hanging Scroll) |
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| Artist | Hirose Tanso |
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| Price | $1260.00 |
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| Weight | 0.62kg |
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| | 41.1cm 16 1/4" | | | 198.4cm 78" |
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This artwork is Ni-gyo Sho (Two Lined Calligraphic Work).
Tanso Hirose (1782 – 1856) was born in Bungo, currently Oita Prefecture. He was a Confucianist, Chinese poet and educator. Tanso is his artist name. His real name is Ken and his another name called aza is Shiki. In 1805, he founded a private academy called Keirin-sou in in Hita City of present-day Oita prefecture and it was moved to Hotta village (Hita City of present-day Oita) in 1817. It changed its name to Kangi-en. Some 3,000 young men from 64 of the then total 68 provinces of Japan were educated at Kangien during Tanso's 50-year career as educator and administrator.
The values that Tanso stressed, study; hard work; frugality; and promotion based on merit, were, in many ways, responsible for the relative ease with which Japan emerged from hundreds of years of self-imposed isolation and became a powerful modern nation
At Kangien, the students were evaluated solely on merit regardless of their career and family background. This was very rare case at that time. Kangien had been opened even after Tanso’s death and it was run by his younger brother and kinship, Hirose Gyokusou, Hirose Ringai and Hirose Seison. It was well known as the largest educational institution at that time and more than 4,000 students studies there.
The Chinese poem written on this artworks means: Why do people always become slaves of name and fame in the real world? If you take a ship of refreshing tea, your mind and soul will be calm and peaceful. In the world, name and fame are two sides of the same coin. They soon disappear like frail thread of smoke.
While Tanso educated students who later contributed to the social reforms at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, he always pursued monastic and peaceful life away from the real world. His such philosophy is well expressed in this calligraphic work.
Ink on Paper (Boku-sho or writing in Indian Ink)
Fine color, impression, and condition
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