Crabs with calligraphy, Sokuhi Nyoitsu
Jifei Ruyi, or Sokuhi Nyoitsu (1616-1671).
Signed: Jifei mountain monk; with three seals of the artist.
Mid-17th century.
Painted area: 122.3 x 28.3 cm.; with mount: 212 x 46 cm.
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., eat this and drink some tea, 2014, p. 146-147, no. 27.
An ink painting on paper of crabs among reeds, mounted as a vertical
format hanging scroll, the artist’s inscription above his own painting.
一性虛閑百念停
剩得奴眼掛空青
By nature totally void and calm, the hundreds of
thoughts all terminated;
All that’s left is two servile eyes, hanging there, dark,
in emptiness.