Minneapolis Institute of Art

Album of Untrammeled Living

Fukuda Kodōjin

Date

March 1933

Medium

Album, ink on paper

Department

Asian Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

The majority of Kodōjin’s albums date from the 1930s and follow the same format with a frontispiece, six leaves of alternating paintings and calligraphies, and a postscript. The paintings in this album are only rendered in ink. The postscript reads: 余以詩書画三拙自名焉此帖即是観者宜察微意所存不問其拙而可 I have named myself for poetry, calligraphy and painting, my Three Clumsinesses! This album is a perfect example. The viewer would do well to discern wherein my subtle meaning lies, without questioning the clumsiness. Japan, Asia

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