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SHIBUKAWA SHUNKAI (1639-1715).] Konten shinzu [A New map of the Heavens]. [Japan: last quarter of the 17th century].

Auction 20.05.1998
20.05.1998
Schätzpreis
100.000 £ - 150.000 £
ca. 163.819 $ - 245.729 $
Zuschlagspreis:
139.000 £
ca. 227.709 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 37

SHIBUKAWA SHUNKAI (1639-1715).] Konten shinzu [A New map of the Heavens]. [Japan: last quarter of the 17th century].

Auction 20.05.1998
20.05.1998
Schätzpreis
100.000 £ - 150.000 £
ca. 163.819 $ - 245.729 $
Zuschlagspreis:
139.000 £
ca. 227.709 $
Beschreibung:

SHIBUKAWA SHUNKAI (1639-1715).] Konten shinzu [A New map of the Heavens]. [Japan: last quarter of the 17th century]. A bronze and copper celestial globe, diameter 55cm, overall height including the bronze stand, 65cm, constructed from two beaten bronze alloy hemispheres, joined at the celestial equator. The plane of the ecliptic ('the yellow road') and the celestial equator ('the red road') are made up in a continuous copper strip graduated in degrees, the ecliptic inscribed with the 8 positions of the calendar: Shumbun (vernal equinox); Rikka (first day of summer); Geshi (summer solstice); Risshu (first day of autumn); Shubun (autumnal equinox); Ritto (first day of winter); Toji (winter solstice) and Risshan (first day of spring). The globe is profusely covered with 1460 stars, making up 248 constellations and 57 individual stars, the stars denoted by metal pins secured through the bronze sphere, with the raised pinheads silvered, gilded or blackened (eight star pins lacking). Those stars in the principal constellations have gilded starpins and are described in gilded characters, the other constellations have silvered or black star pins and are described in silver characters. Each constellation system has the stars joined together by silvered lines, slightly raised from the copper surface, created by engraving a soft line and filling the line with a silver alloy. The milky way with its division into two 'streams' is 'drawn' onto the globe by finely pitting the bronze surface, sections showing traces of old gilding. Two single-line latitudinal circles are drawn onto the sphere, the circle of perpetual visibility (in the north Polar region), and the circle of perpetual invisibility (at the south pole), the latter described on the globe as "The area [south of the] 36th degree always hidden and cannot be seen", the south pole lettered on the axis ' Nankyoku ', and around the South in seal script is the title of the globe, Konten shinzu , "A new map of the heavens", together with the character 'Rojin ', 'old man' [of the South Pole]. The globe is also divided longitudinally into 27 lunar lodges or mansions, each of varying degree widths, making up lunar lodges 1-19, 21-28. Each lunar lodge is defined by a principal constellation or star group, represented by gilded stars and characters. The globe set on an iron axis, the head and foot of the axis with traces of elaborate gilded decoration, the southern axis with the character 'Nankyoku' [South Pole]. The southern axis with a small indent forming the ball which inserts into the socket of the mounting of the 'dragon style' bronze stand. The stand comprising two dragon heads of unequal height, joined by a fashioned scaled body forming the cross stretcher between the two 'heads', the bronze stand mounted on a late 19th century yellow marble stand (lacking the original horizon circle). A MAGNIFICENT UNRECORDED BRONZE CELESTIAL GLOBE, UNSIGNED BUT MODELLED ON THE CELESTIAL CARTOGRAPHY OF SHIBUKAWA SHUNKAI. ONE OF THREE SIMILAR BRONZE GLOBES MADE IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY BASED ON SHIBUKAWA'S NEW STAR MAPS. The other comparable examples are: 1. An almost identical globe in the Eisei-Bunko [National Museum of Science], Tokyo. This example described as an 'Important Cultural Object'. The Eisei-Bunko globe has an almost identical diameter described variously as 55 cm ( Der Globusfreund 1990, vol 38/39, pp 173-177, List of old Globes in Japan), and 52.8 cm [Exhibition Berlin, Japan und Europa 1543-1929 No 7/21; Exhibition Tokyo, Bridge between Japan and the Netherlands, 1998]. This globe has a very similar construction, and comparable 'dragon' stand, but is mounted on a wooden base, on which is inscribed an historical account of Chinese and Japanese astronomical instruments and some comments on the celestial globe. The globe is ascribed to the maker Tsuda Tomimasa and dated Kambun 13 [1673]. The property of the Hosokawa family. 2. A second bronze globe in the Kushno-in Templ

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 37
Auktion:
Datum:
20.05.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

SHIBUKAWA SHUNKAI (1639-1715).] Konten shinzu [A New map of the Heavens]. [Japan: last quarter of the 17th century]. A bronze and copper celestial globe, diameter 55cm, overall height including the bronze stand, 65cm, constructed from two beaten bronze alloy hemispheres, joined at the celestial equator. The plane of the ecliptic ('the yellow road') and the celestial equator ('the red road') are made up in a continuous copper strip graduated in degrees, the ecliptic inscribed with the 8 positions of the calendar: Shumbun (vernal equinox); Rikka (first day of summer); Geshi (summer solstice); Risshu (first day of autumn); Shubun (autumnal equinox); Ritto (first day of winter); Toji (winter solstice) and Risshan (first day of spring). The globe is profusely covered with 1460 stars, making up 248 constellations and 57 individual stars, the stars denoted by metal pins secured through the bronze sphere, with the raised pinheads silvered, gilded or blackened (eight star pins lacking). Those stars in the principal constellations have gilded starpins and are described in gilded characters, the other constellations have silvered or black star pins and are described in silver characters. Each constellation system has the stars joined together by silvered lines, slightly raised from the copper surface, created by engraving a soft line and filling the line with a silver alloy. The milky way with its division into two 'streams' is 'drawn' onto the globe by finely pitting the bronze surface, sections showing traces of old gilding. Two single-line latitudinal circles are drawn onto the sphere, the circle of perpetual visibility (in the north Polar region), and the circle of perpetual invisibility (at the south pole), the latter described on the globe as "The area [south of the] 36th degree always hidden and cannot be seen", the south pole lettered on the axis ' Nankyoku ', and around the South in seal script is the title of the globe, Konten shinzu , "A new map of the heavens", together with the character 'Rojin ', 'old man' [of the South Pole]. The globe is also divided longitudinally into 27 lunar lodges or mansions, each of varying degree widths, making up lunar lodges 1-19, 21-28. Each lunar lodge is defined by a principal constellation or star group, represented by gilded stars and characters. The globe set on an iron axis, the head and foot of the axis with traces of elaborate gilded decoration, the southern axis with the character 'Nankyoku' [South Pole]. The southern axis with a small indent forming the ball which inserts into the socket of the mounting of the 'dragon style' bronze stand. The stand comprising two dragon heads of unequal height, joined by a fashioned scaled body forming the cross stretcher between the two 'heads', the bronze stand mounted on a late 19th century yellow marble stand (lacking the original horizon circle). A MAGNIFICENT UNRECORDED BRONZE CELESTIAL GLOBE, UNSIGNED BUT MODELLED ON THE CELESTIAL CARTOGRAPHY OF SHIBUKAWA SHUNKAI. ONE OF THREE SIMILAR BRONZE GLOBES MADE IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE 17TH CENTURY BASED ON SHIBUKAWA'S NEW STAR MAPS. The other comparable examples are: 1. An almost identical globe in the Eisei-Bunko [National Museum of Science], Tokyo. This example described as an 'Important Cultural Object'. The Eisei-Bunko globe has an almost identical diameter described variously as 55 cm ( Der Globusfreund 1990, vol 38/39, pp 173-177, List of old Globes in Japan), and 52.8 cm [Exhibition Berlin, Japan und Europa 1543-1929 No 7/21; Exhibition Tokyo, Bridge between Japan and the Netherlands, 1998]. This globe has a very similar construction, and comparable 'dragon' stand, but is mounted on a wooden base, on which is inscribed an historical account of Chinese and Japanese astronomical instruments and some comments on the celestial globe. The globe is ascribed to the maker Tsuda Tomimasa and dated Kambun 13 [1673]. The property of the Hosokawa family. 2. A second bronze globe in the Kushno-in Templ

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 37
Auktion:
Datum:
20.05.1998
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
London, King Street
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