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2025年8月26日

Tetsuo Somon
【Senri oukou (Crabs) (wide hanging scroll)】

In the world of art and calligraphy, the phrase "Senri Oukou (千里横行)" represents a crab, with the crab's shell likened to armor. It is said that this motif was adopted as a motif for the furnishings of many samurai from the end of the Muromachi period onwards.
Number
D-142
Title
Senri oukou (Crabs) (wide hanging scroll)
Artist
Tetsuo Somon
Detail
Materials : ink on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 84 × H 143 cm (Image) ・ W 97 × H 207.5 cm (Mount)
Condition: slightly stained, slightly creased
Artist History
Tetsuo Somon (1791-1872) was a Rinzai sect monk and Southern painter from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. He learned literati painting from Ishizaki Yushi and Ko Kaho, and is considered one of the three great masters of Nagasaki Southern painting along with Kinoshita Itsuun and Miura Gomon.
Price
120,000yen

Tetsuo Somon
【Senri oukou (Crabs) (wide hanging scroll)】

In the world of art and calligraphy, the phrase "Senri Oukou (千里横行)" represents a crab, with the crab's shell likened to armor. It is said that this motif was adopted as a motif for the furnishings of many samurai from the end of the Muromachi period onwards.
Number
D-142
Title
Senri oukou (Crabs) (wide hanging scroll)
Artist
Tetsuo Somon
Detail
Materials : ink on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 84 × H 143 cm (Image) ・ W 97 × H 207.5 cm (Mount)
Condition: slightly stained, slightly creased
Artist History
Tetsuo Somon (1791-1872) was a Rinzai sect monk and Southern painter from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period. He learned literati painting from Ishizaki Yushi and Ko Kaho, and is considered one of the three great masters of Nagasaki Southern painting along with Kinoshita Itsuun and Miura Gomon.
Price
120,000yen

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