Antique Japanese Kakejiku Hanging Scroll Daruma Bodhidharma Zenga Ink Painting 61"L Lacquer and paper documentation

and paper documentation

traditionally associated with longevity and good fortune in Japan

A revisionist history of the Imperial Japanese Army that challenges the long-held assumption of Japanese soldiers as models of blind obedience

Hand-Carved Legs

and small age-related imperfections are present

Antique Japanese Kakejiku Hanging Scroll Daruma Bodhidharma Zenga Ink Painting 61"L Lacquer and paper documentationJapanese kakejiku hanging scroll, sumi ink on paper, bold zenga style portrait of Daruma (Bodhidharma), signed and sealed, Taish to early Shwa period Japan; Taish to early Shwa period, c. 1910s1930s A commanding zenga style portrait of Daruma (, Bodhidharma) executed in sumi ink on paper with broad, decisive brushwork. The patriarch's face dominates the upper field heavy brow rendered in a single sweeping stroke, the characteristic fierce eyes