Incense SET "setsugekka"

The "SETSUGEKKA" series is a set of a simple incense stand and incense sticks with a scent inspired by "Snow, Moon and Flowers", the motif which is often use in Japanese painting and expresses beauty of four seasons. 

Treasured in a beautiful paulownia box. 

Both incense and incense stand are made in Japan.

The original of the poetic Japanese painting "Snow, Moon, Flower" on the package comes from a hanging scroll trilogy by "Sakai Hoitsu", who is known as the patriarch of the Edo Rinpa school. The masterpiece of the three paintings are currently in the collection of the MOA Museum of Art in Shizuoka Prefecture.

ORIGINAL ART

"The snow, the moon and the flowers" by Sakai Hoitsu

Collection of MOA Museum of Art at Shizuoka

Edo period (1820)

Set of three hanging scrolls, color on silk

Size: 91.4 cm × 35.1 cm each

< explanation by MOA museum >

"The snow, the moon and the flowers are the three motifs representing the seasonal pleasures in Japan.

Hōitsu composed the triad as one whole unit, thinking of the overall composition when three paintings are juxtaposed. Therefore he placed the snow and pine trees on the top, the moon in the clouds in the middle, and the cherry blossoms at the bottom of each screen. Hōitsu was a painter, poet, and researcher of the Rimpa School, but this work is a superb manifestation of Hōitsu’s prestige as a designer. This triad beautifully painted with selected pigments, is one of Hōitsu’s masterpieces, completed when he was 60 years old."