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MAEDA SEISON (1885-1977)
Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era,
circa 1926-1977
Kakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and colours on paper in silk
mounts, depicting a rustic scene of peasants excitedly
watching two dogs fighting, signed and sealed Seison, with
a wooden tomobako storage box inscribed outside Token
(Dogfight), signed inside Seison dai (inscribed by Seison)
and sealed Seison; with outer lacquered storage box.
Overall: 210cm x 61cm (82¾in x 24in);
image: 110cm x 40.5cm (43¼in x 16in). (3).

£3,500 - 4,000
JPY530,000 - 600,000
US$4,900 - 5,700

One of the ‘three pillars’ of the Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan
Art Institute), along with Kobayashi Kokei and Yasuda
Yukihiko, Maeda Seison was among the most influential
Japanese artists of the last century and is celebrated
for his mastery of an extremely wide range of styles and
subjects: historical, religious, literary, bird-and-flower,
animal painting, and lively genre painting somewhat in the
Shijo manner, as seen in the present lot.

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FUKUDA KODOJIN (SEISHO, 1865-1944)
Showa era (1926-1989), circa 1926-1944
Kakejiku (hanging scroll); ink on paper in silk mounts,
depicting an elongated vertical mountain landscape in
characteristic Nanga style with a tiny Chinese figure in the
foreground looking up toward the peaks, with a Chinese
poem, three artist seals including one reading Seisho and
a collector’s seal reading Shujitsu tada shirakumo kado ni
itaru (All day long only white clouds come to my gate), a
line from a verse by the Chinese poet Liu Yan (1048-1102);
with inscribed tomobako double wooden storage boxes.
Overall: 205cm x 50cm (80¾in x 19¾in);
image: 137cm x 32.5cm (54in x 12¾in). (3).
£1,200 - 1,800
JPY180,000 - 270,000
US$1,700 - 2,500

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