Yamaoka Tesshu (1836-1888), Two-Line Calligraphy, Japanese hanging scroll

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Meaning of Words

Original text
無風荷葉動決
定有魚行

Romanized version of the original text:
Kaze nakushite kayo ugoku ketsujō uo no yuku koto aran

Yaku: Translation
Though there is no wind, the lotus leaves move—
surely it is because a fish is passing beneath them.
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Setting weight
This piece weighs 0.9 kg.

Material
Ink on paper

Size
Overall: vertical 192cm (75.59 in) × width 45.3cm (17.83 in)＊width does not include roller ends.
(the work: vertical 129.5cm (50.98 in) × width 32cm (12.60 in))

Condition
・There are burns, stains, wrinkles, gap repair, peeling off on the Japanese paper on the back of the cover.
・There are burns, stains, wrinkles on the image.
・There are burns, stains, wrinkles, warp in the mounting.

Remarks
・Roller ends are Wooden.
・There is no signature on the box.

Materials for mounting
All of them are made of silk.

Other
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*There may be a slight difference in color between the photo and the actual product.

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Biography
Yamaoka Tesshu (1836-1888)

Swordsman and bureaucrat of the late Edo and Meiji periods.
Born in Edo in Tempo 7.
His real family name was Ono. His first name was Takayuki.His nickname was Koya, Mouko.
His alias is Tetsutaro. The pseudonym is Ichirakusai.
He learned swordsmanship from Chiba Shusaku and taught at the Bakufu Kobusho.
During the Boshin War, he met Saigo Takamori as an emissary of Katsu Kaishu, and paved the way for the "Katsu-Saigo talks" that led to the opening of the Edo Castle.
After the Meiji Restoration, he served as the Grand Counsellor of the Shizuoka Domain, the Counsellor of Ibaraki Prefecture, and the attendant to the Emperor Meiji.
In 1880, he established Itto Shoden Muto-ryu.
Together with Kaishu Katsu and Deishu Takahashi, he was known as one of the "Three Ships of the Last Days of the Tokugawa Shogunate(Bakumatsu-sanshu)".
He died in 1888 at the age of 53.