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Aubergines
Also titled Eggplants
Ōtagaki Rengetsu (Kyoto, 1791–1875)
1850 - 1855
- Medium
- paper, ink
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 119 cm x width 44.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (bequest F. Hess, 2023)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
The Bhuddist monk-painter Rengetsu had a characteristic, cursive form of writing. With a clever play on words, her poem reflects on the fruits of life and extols ‘eggplants’ and the triumph of ‘achieving a goal.’ The two words share the same pronunciation nasu.
