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EMBROIDERED WORKS OF ART by Sasaki) respectively. Overall 264cm x 175cm (104in x 68 7/8in),
Various Properties image 227cm x 138cm (89 3/8in x 54 3/8in).

190TP £3,000 - 4,000
A LARGE EMBROIDERED WALL HANGING JPY410,000 - 550,000
Designed by Nishimura Sozaemon (1855-1935) and embroidered by US$3,700 - 5,000
Sasaki, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Finely worked and handwoven with abundant use of coloured silk The name Sasaki in one of the signatures likely refers to Sasaki
threads of gold, green, brown, white, red, pink, grey and black Seishichi (1844-1908), a master weaver active in the Nishijin district
depicting rustic thatched huts around which bird-and-flower scenes of Kyoto who manufactured large-scale textiles, often working for
associated with the four seasons are shown including a family of Iida Shinshichi, founder of the Takashimaya Department Store.
chickens pecking for food among flowering chrysanthemums in the Nishimura, in the other signature, refers to Nishimura Sozaemon
foreground, five cranes wading beside a stream beneath a pine tree (1855-1935), a Kyoto artist and entrepreneur who developed new
on the lower right, two groups of sparrows flocking towards flowering decorative textile techniques.
plum trees and sotetsu (sago palm or cycad) trees in the middle
section, two diagonal formations of swallows in flight in the upper
section and a pagoda shrine nestled among a cedar grove beneath a
mountain rising in the distance, signed with two square reserves Gashi
Nishimura (designed by Nishimura) and Nuishi Sasaki (embroidered

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