Black Robe, White Mist: Art Of The Japanese Buddhist Nun Rengetsu
Author: Melanie Eastburn
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: National Gallery of Australia
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: 01 November 2007
: 225mm X 227mm X 14mm
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Description
Rengetsu (1791-1875), whose name translates as Lotus Moon, was a Japanese Buddhist nun whose tragic life inspired extraordinary creativity. One of a very few successful female artists in nineteenth-century Japan, Rengetsu was primarily a poet and calligrapher, but also excelled in pottery and scroll painting. Her idiosyncratic personal aesthetic attracted an enormous following in her own lifetime and was imitated by many of her admirers.
