Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1426 Rushing to cooperate

The time I was able to stay in the island country was very short, and Zhou Zhi needed to seize every minute. After the negotiation with Sony was completed, he even declined subsequent visits. Except for a short nap in the art museum, he spent almost all of his time All wasted on the identification and observation of cultural relics.

This kind of highly intensive mental consumption and concentration brings about a rapid increase in ability. Zhou Zhi once had such an experience when he was restoring ancient paintings in Hongqi Village.

But this time was much better than that time, at least Ono was there to bring him food.

At this time, Ikeda walked in with his mobile phone and interrupted everyone very embarrassedly: "Mr. Sakamoto called and asked when we can go there."

The three people in the collection room just burst out laughing. They were all crazy. They had promised to go there after receiving Mr. Ma today, but ended up rushing here and completely forgetting about the day.

Looking at the simple wall clock on the wall, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. Zhou Zhi had no choice but to ask apologetically: "Would you like to trouble Ms. Ikeda to get us some lunch boxes? Let's set off after reading these things."

Ikeda had nothing to do with these men, not to mention that she had been working as Zhou Zhi's assistant these days, and felt the charm of Zhou Zhi's job. She smiled and said, "Mr. Sakamoto seems to have guessed all this. He just said don't miss the Fujita family." Just the dinner.”

"Oh, that's good." Zhou Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. It would be bad to leave the impression that Chinese people are impolite.

"Does Zhou Sang have a suit?" Ikeda Qiu suddenly asked another question.

"You want a suit?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but was stunned for a moment and looked at Master Ma.

"Don't look at me. I'm wearing a cardigan. I'm very excited when I look like a foreigner in formal attire." Mr. Ma was very proud: "Now I have to take one with me when I go abroad."

"Didn't you tell me such valuable experience earlier?" Zhou Zhi couldn't help but glare.

"You didn't even ask me!" Mr. Ma glared back.

"I understand, leave it to me." Ikeda Qiu faithfully performed his duties during this period, no longer paying attention to the old and young who were looking at each other, and went out calmly.

"Hey, don't be too exaggerated..." Zhou Zhi said quickly, and then added after thinking: "...and don't be too expensive!"

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"I can't tell, but my elbows look quite handsome in a suit." On the way to the Fujita Museum of Art, Mr. Ma admired Ikeda Qiu's clothes. He was able to judge Zhou Zhi's accurate figure and buy the right one just by looking at it. After putting on Zhou Zhi's suit, he looked more like the "college student" Fu Xia called him.

Osaka is a mecca for appreciating Oriental porcelain, as it is home to two art museums with important collections of porcelain.

One is the Tokyo Museum of Oriental Ceramics, which mainly collects the collection of Eiichi Ataka, and the other is the Fujita Museum.

Unlike Eiichi Anzaku, who is basically only interested in ceramics, Denzaburo Fujita has a wide range of interests, including bronzes, lacquerware, ancient calligraphy and paintings, scriptures, ceramics, tea ceremony utensils and other ancient artworks.

Eiichi Ataka's quirk is that he tries every possible means to collect something he likes, no matter how high the price is or how hard the process is, but he never comments on his collection.

This style is also very consistent with the attitude of the islanders who like the "philosophy of style". The good things are there, so there is no need to say more nonsense. Denzaburo Fujita is of a different style. It is said that this collector never bargains on price and is always straightforward and can only say "yes" or "no".

During the Meiji period, the island country also experienced great turmoil. It advocated the west wind, and also set off cultural riots on the island that "destroyed Buddhism" and "un-ancient", resulting in the destruction of countless treasures, temples, calligraphy and painting scriptures, etc. blow.

The wealthy people of the island country took the opportunity to collect a large number of precious cultural relics at this time, which objectively played a role in protecting cultural relics.

The Fujiwara Museum of Art is much smaller than the Museum of Oriental Porcelain, but there are more than 5,000 treasures here, and many of them are rare treasures.

For example, the second-ranked piece of the three national treasures of the island country, the Obsidian Heavenly Eye Lamp, is here.

In addition, the Shang and Zhou bronzes include bronze Taotie-patterned square statues, square lei, gourds, and sheep cups; Yuan Dynasty Longquan kiln printed celadon Phoenix tail statues and lotus leaf lid jars; and Buddhist statues from the Tang Dynasty and Northern Wei Dynasty are all extremely rare treasures.

In terms of ancient calligraphy and painting, the six-hand scroll from Shiqubao Pavilion that is about to change hands this time is not the most precious cultural relic in the art museum.

Even more precious than them are the earliest Mahaprajna Sutra in the island country, the 387 volumes of Nara Yakushiji Temple's sutra written in the eighth century AD, which are written "Translated by the imperial edict of Tripitaka Master Xuanzang", and the Tang Dynasty Sutra unearthed in Dunhuang. The volumes are highly similar and are typical of the Tang Dynasty style of writing scriptures, with fine writing and good preservation.

There is also the "Xuan Zang Tripitaka Painting Scroll", which is said to be the legendary work of the famous 14th-century island country painter Takakane Takashi. It is twelve volumes long and more than 100 meters long. It completely shows the entire story of Tang Tripitaka from his birth to his death. It is said to be the most glorious and magnificent work and a masterpiece in the history of world art.

In addition, there are two 11th-century "Da Sutra Enlightenment Pictures" from the Tantric esoteric Shingon sect of the Tang Dynasty, which has been cut off from the Dharma lineage in China and left behind in the island countries.

However, these have been designated as "national treasures" of the island country. The law of the island country prohibits the sale of national treasures and important cultural properties. They can no longer appear at auctions, and they have basically lost hope of returning to China.

Just from these collections, we can see that as a private museum, the Fujiwara Museum of Art's collection has the strength to rival the National Museum.

Although the Fujiwara family got its start through the overthrow movement and gained huge wealth in a short period of time, its role in World War II was not glorious and it has declined today.

It can also be seen from the current state of the art museum that the decades-old museum has not been renovated since its establishment in 1954. It has become dilapidated in all aspects. The purchase of forty kilograms of gold in Japanese yen has changed the enthusiasm of Tianmu Zhan.

Fortunately, although the cultural relics protection policy of the island country is relatively strict, there are not many restrictions on the collection of Chinese cultural relics in modern times. Therefore, with the help of Anzai and Sakamoto, the Fujita Art Museum decided to sell some cultural relics to alleviate operating difficulties and repair them. Old building.

Of course, it cannot be said that it is 100% good-hearted and well-intentioned. It can only be said that Goro Sakamoto, as a successful antique dealer, has smelled the breath of money hidden in the wind from the mainland, and has been keenly aware of the mainland, which is about to prosper. In the collectibles market, some layouts have been made in advance, some connections have been planted, and some friendships have been left behind.

These are good things that are win-win for all parties. For example, Zhou Zhi and Ma Ye now simply cannot refuse.

Not only could I not refuse, but I had to rush to cooperate.

(End of this chapter)