{"id":2913,"date":"2023-07-12T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2023-07-12T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:44:42","slug":"the-vinegar-tasters-and-bird-and-flower-painting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/?p=2913","title":{"rendered":"The Vinegar Tasters and Bird-and-flower Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kan\u014d Yasunobu&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early Edo period (17<sup>th<\/sup> century)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donated by the Homma family<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also known by his artist names Eishin and Bokushinsai, Kan\u014d Yasunobu (1614\u201385) was a painter of the Kan\u014d school, the youngest brother of Kan\u014d Tan\u2019yu and part of the eighth generation of the head family of Kan\u014d. Known for his contributions to Kan\u014d school painting theory, he was a goy\u014d eshi, an official painter for the Tokugawa sh\u014dgunate, and also went on to found the Nakabashi branch of the Kan\u014d school.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The middle scroll depicts The Vinegar Tasters, a traditional allegorical subject in Chinese painting depicting the three teachings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, represented by Buddha, Confucius, and Laozi. They are tasting a vat of peach blossom vinegar, perceiving it as either bitter, sour, or sweet depending on the predominant attitude of their respective philosophies. The painting is typically seen to represent the unity of the three schools of thought.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The left and right scrolls depict a silver pheasant, native to southwest China, and a dove.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This hanging scroll was purchased in April 1845 (Tenp\u014d 15) when K\u014dki was the fifth-generation head of the Homma family. It is thought to have been displayed when receiving visiting feudal lords at the Seienkaku residence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kan\u014d Yasunobu&nbsp; Early Edo period (17th century) Donated by the Homma family Also known by his artist names&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hommamuseum-en.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}