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MORI KANSAI (1814-1894)
Edo period (1615-1868), 1859
Pair of tall kakejiku (hanging scrolls); ink on
and colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting
on the right-hand scroll a cat crossing a
bridge beneath a pine tree and on the left-
hand scroll another cat on the roof of a
thatched farmhouse beneath the full moon,
the left-hand scroll signed Tsuchinoto-hitsuji
no haru sha Kansai (Drawn by Kansai in spring
1859) and sealed Tachibana Koshuku in and
Tachibanashi Shiyo, the right-hand scroll
sealed Tachibana Koshuku in; with a wooden
storage box. Each overall: 187cm x 23.5cm
(73 5/8in x 9¼in);
image: 104cm x 11cm (41in x 4 3/8in). (3).

£1,500 - 2,000
JPY230,000 - 300,000
US$2,100 - 2,800

Born at Hagi in Nagato Province, Mori Kansai
moved to Osaka in 1831 to study with Mori
Tetsuzan, who later him sent him to Kyoto
where he painted in the Maruyama-Shijo style.
A staunch adherent of the imperial loyalist
faction, he found himself in political difficulties
in the 1860s but after the Meiji Restoration
opened a successful private art academy and
continued to paint in a wide range of styles.
His works are often dated. The two seals on
this pair, one white on red and the other red
on white, were also used on a 1883 painting
of Murasaki Shikibu at the Ishiyamadera
Temple, see The Museum of Modern Art,
Shiga, Omi hakkei: Kokoku fukeiga no seiritsu
to tenkai (The Eight Views of Lake Biwa:
Origins and Development of Landscape
Painting in our Country of Lakes), exhibition
catalogue, 1988, pp.100,144.

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ATTRIBUTED TO KISHINE RYUKEI
(1855-1935)
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
Kakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and colours on
paper in silk mounts, depicting an emaciated
female ghost, signed Ryukei within a gourd-
shaped seal; with a wooden storage box.
Overall: 185cm x 57.5cm (72 7/8in x 22 5/8in);
image: 123cm x 38cm (48½in x 15in). (2).
£1,500 - 2,000
JPY230,000 - 300,000
US$2,100 - 2,800

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