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Mitsui Takayoshi, "Crane and Sun"
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| Item No | #108002380 |
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| Item | Kakejiku(Hanging Scroll) |
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| Artist | Mitsui Takayoshi |
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| Price | $1000.00 |
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| Weight | 0.6kg |
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| | 49cm 19 1/4" | | | 184cm 72 1/2" |
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"Crane and Sun"
Mitsui Takatoshi (1622 — 1694) founder of the Mitsui conglomerate. The second son of Sokubei Mitsui, a grocer and pawnbroker of Matsusaka, in Mie , he showed a remarkably precocious talent for business from an early age, and, moving to Edo at 14 years of age, where he was later joined by his brothers Toshigutsu, and Shigetoshi, he managed to rapidly multipy his capital by developing a textile retail business after opening a clothes store gofukuya. A fall-out with his jealous brothers forced him to return to Matsusaka at the age of 28, where he remained for two decades, and only returned to Edo on his elder brother Toshigutsu’s death in 1673. He then established a gofukuya in Nihonbashi the following year, which was to become, later, the head company of the famous Mitsukoshi retail shopping chain. He subsequently started a money exchange, with a new system for inter-city loans, and died at the age of 73.
Under the sunlight vividly depicted like emerged, two cranes and bamboos are depicted. This motif is thought of auspicious, so this artwork might have be drawn for celebration like the new year or wedding. As the 8th family head of the Mitsui, Takafuku was a enterpreneur but was having a stong interest in calligraphy and paintings as well as poems or tea ceremony. In this artwork, his touch caught the crane's erastic motions.
Painted on silk
Slight soiling
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