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PAINTINgS & PRINTS 51 Y Ф
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49 By Nomura Bunkyo (1854-1911), Meiji era
THRee ScROll PAINTINgS The first is in the Shijo-style depicting two figures drinking tea in a
Edo period and later pine grove beside a stream, clouds swirl among the tree tops, with
Daikoku and Ebisen, colour on silk, by Kano Naganobu, signed Isen’in inscription and seal, colour and ink on silk, mounted on silk brocade
hogen hitsu (painted by Isen’in with the hogen title), seal mark reads with ivory scroll ends, with box, image 119.5cm x 42.5cm; the second
Eishin, Edo period, 88cm x 39.5cm, and mounted on brocade silk with in the Nanga-style of a pavilion behind pine trees beside flowering river
red lacquer scroll ends, with storage box; Three famous waka poets reeds, signed Bunkyo with seals, colour and ink on silk mounted on
of the Heian period, colour on paper, signed Kofuku utsusu, the seal silk brocade with ivory scroll ends.
marks read Kofuku no in (The seal of Kofuku) and Aijudojin, 101cm x Image 139cm x 42cm, and with box (4).
42cm, and mounted on paper; Sugawara no Michizane seated under
a plum tree, colour on paper, signed Gessho kinsha, seal mark reads £250 - 350
Sugiki Gessho, 115cm x 41cm, and mounted on paper.
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A quANTITy OF wOOdBlOck PRINTS
£200 - 300 Comprising various actor and bijin subjects, some as triptychs others
as individual sheets: one oban by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806);
The painter Kano Naganobu (Eishin) Isen’in was the 7th generation one oban by Shunsen (1762-1830); twenty-seven oban by Utagawa
head of the Kobikimachi branch of the Kano School. Kunisada (also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, 1786–1865); five oban
by Kikukawa Eizan (1787–1867); three oban by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
The three poets, Kakinmoto no Hitomaro, Ono no Komachi and Kino (1798–1861); one oban by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (also named Taiso
Tsurayaki, are included among the Sanjurokkasen (Thirty-six Immortals Yoshitoshi, 1839–1892); two oban with unidentified signatures;
of Poetry). together with two watercolours and various reproductions.
(38 oban).
Sugawara no Michizane was a poet and politician of the Heian period,
and was later deified as the Shinto god of learning, Tenjin. £800 - 1,000

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FOuR wOOdBlOck PRINTS FISH SeRVed ON A leAF
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Keisai Eisen (1790–1848), and Maeda Seison (1885-1977)
Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825) Ink and colour on paper, with seal and signature.
The first depicting the Motomachi Detour from the ‘Fifty-three Stations 42cm x 52cm, and mounted on silk brocade, with box (2).
of Tokaido’ by Hiroshige, the second an urban landscape of Yushima
Daijinja from the series ‘Edo Meisho’ by Hiroshige, the third a barefoot £600 - 800
bijin beneath flowering plum tree by Toyokuni, and the fourth a bijin
with candle by Eisen. One of the ‘three pillars’ of the Nihon Bijutsuin (Japan Art Institute),
Each oban 37.5cm x 24cm, and framed and glazed (4). Maeda Seison was among the most influential Japanese artists of the
last century and is celebrated for his mastery of an extremely wide
£200 - 300 range of styles and subjects: historical, religious, literary, bird-and-
flower, animal painting, and lively genre painting somewhat in the Shijo
manner.

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