吉本和竹子 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	吉本和竹子
品名（英）	Gibbon and Bamboo
入馆年号	2021年，2021.398.12
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Sesson Shūkei 雪村周継【1504 至 1589】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1504 - 公元 1589
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	图像: 37 1/4 × 12 15/16 英寸 (94.6 × 32.9 厘米) 整体 with mounting: 71 × 18 3/8 英寸 (180.3 × 46.7 厘米) 整体 with knobs: 71 × 20 1/4 英寸 (180.3 × 51.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅卷轴画描绘了一只长臂猿挂在竹秆附近的藤蔓上。长臂猿放下的左手表明他正在伸手去拿什么东西，可能是月亮在下面水中的倒影——这是日本长臂猿绘画中常见的场景，也是植根于禅宗佛教教义中关于未觉醒心灵的妄想本质的场景。这幅图像完全用墨水绘制，属于一长串单色日本猿类画，灵感来自十三世纪末的中国画家木齐，木齐的作品，包括几幅长臂猿，都是在艺术家有生之年在日本收集的。Sesson Shūkei在日本东北长大并度过了他的早期职业生涯，在职业生涯中期搬到了镰仓和附近的小田原，这些城市拥有大型禅宗寺院和强大的武士赞助人，他们的收藏充满了古老的中国画。塞松在此期间和之后的作品清楚地表明，他仔细研究了木齐和其他宋元著名画家的画作，这些画作保存在当地收藏中。作品的右下角印有一枚方形的红色印章，上面写着修庆。
介绍（英）	This scroll painting portrays a gibbon hanging from a vine near stalks of bamboo. The gibbon’s lowered left hand suggests that he is reaching for something, probably the reflection of the moon in the water below—a scene common in Japanese gibbon paintings and one rooted in Zen Buddhist teachings about the delusional nature of the unawakened mind. Painted entirely in ink, the image belongs to a long line of monochrome Japanese simian paintings inspired by the late thirteenth-century Chinese painter Muqi, whose works, including several of gibbons, were collected in Japan during the artist’s own lifetime. Sesson Shūkei, who was raised and spent his early career in northeastern Japan, relocated in midcareer to Kamakura and nearby Odawara, cities with large Zen monasteries and powerful warrior patrons whose collections were replete with old Chinese paintings. Sesson’s work during and after this period makes clear that he closely studied paintings by Muqi and other celebrated Chinese painters of the Song and Yuan dynasties held in local collections. The work is impressed at lower right with a square, red seal reading Shūkei.