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TAKAI KOZAN (1806-1883)
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1870-1880
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll); ink and colours on paper in
silk mounts, depicting two monstrous ghosts, one of them on
horseback; signed Kozan giga (Painted for fun by Kozan) with
two seals, one of them in the form of an imaginary animal; with a
wooden storage box.
Overall: 115cm x 64.5cm (46½in x 25 3/8in);
image: 36cm x 56cm (14 1/8in x 22in). (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$1,300 - 2,000
Born to a wealthy sake-brewing and farming family in present-day
Nagano Prefecture, Takai Kozan studied calligraphy, painting, poetry,
and neo-Confucian philosophy with leading masters in both Kyoto
and Edo (Tokyo). He succeeded to the family title in 1840 but he was
famous for his charitable attitude toward the peasantry and had little
taste for business management, preferring to study Zen Buddhism
and cultivate a wide circle of friends including Katsushika Hokusai. He
subsequently became an employee of the Meiji government and in his
later years earned a living painting giant banners for local shrines; his
memorial museum in Obuse, Nagano Prefecture still houses some of
the huge brushes he used for that project.
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NAGASAKI SCHOOL
Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century
Framed and glazed painting, ink and colours on paper, depicting
a scene in the Dutch Factory (Trading Post), with foreign ships at
anchor in Nagasaki Bay, unsigned; with a cardboard box.
Overall: 66.5cm x 81.5cm (26¼in x 32 1/8in);
image: 41cm x 48cm (16 1/8in x 18 7/8in). (2).

£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$1,300 - 2,000
The style of this painting, including its bird’s-eye view perspective,
recalls the work of Kuwahara Keiga, a little-known artist who
was permitted to live in the foreign enclave at Nagasaki where he
associated with the Dutch residents, making a living depicting them
and their activities.

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KANO HOGAI (1828-1888) The son of a provincial member of the Kano academy, Hogai was
Meiji era (1868-1912), 1880s trained in the Kano tradition in Edo (present-day Tokyo) and from
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on paper 1860 played a role in the redecoration of Edo Castle. With the fall of
in silk mounts, depicting a standing figure of Daruma, the founder the Tokugawa shoguns, principal patrons of the Kano painters, Hogai
of Zen Buddhism, with seals Ka, no, Tadamichi no in (seal of lost his livelihood and was reduced to ceramic and lacquer decoration
Tadamichi); with a wooden storage box. Overall: 263cm x 158cm but following his ‘discovery’ by two influential Bostonian scholars and
(103½in x 62¼in); image: 224cm x 128cm (88¼in x 50 3/8in). (2). collectors, Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, he worked
to restore the status of traditional Japanese painting, producing works
£7,000 - 8,000 like the present outsize hanging scroll that combined East Asian
JPY1,000,000 - 1,200,000 brushwork with Western techniques of modelling and shading.
US$9,300 - 11,000

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