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STYLE OF OGAWA HARITSU (1663-1747) Provenance
A lacquer ryoshibako (document box) with biwa and Purchased from Ashkenazie and Co., San Francisco, 1996.
chrysanthemums
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century Published
The black-lacquer surface of ink-cake texture, overlaid in porcelain, Stephen Little and Edmund J. Lewis, View of the Pinnacle: Japanese
mother-of-pearl and boxwood with a four-string biwa (lute), Lacquer Writing Boxes: The Lewis Collection of Suzuribako,
embellished with red and white chrysanthemums, inscribed Ritsuo Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011, cat. no. 54
with seal Kan
15 3/4 x 12 3/8 x 5 1/2in (40 x 31.4 x 13.8cm) As noted by Little and Lewis, although it bears the signature of
Ogawa Haritsu the present lot is more likely the work of Michizuki
$5,000 - 7,000 Hanzan (1743-1790) or a later talented artist such as Sakai Kyozan
or Miura Kenya (1825-1889). The biwa probably refers to the ninth-
or early-tenth-century blind poet and musician Semimaru.

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