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252 ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS.
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No. 583.
From the makimono referred to on the previous page
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the inscription painted in black, the seals stamped in red.
To-sen, Ho-gan, yegaku. Painted by Tosen, Hogan; the latter
being his title. The upper seal reads Ka-no, Kano being the
family name of the painter and the lower one reads Kan-
;
RAKu-sAi, Kanrakusai, his professional name.
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No. 584.
Stamped in red upon the same makimono. An-sei Otsu-
Bo Shi-jiu-ku o Hichi-sho, Ko-ji. Hichi-sho, Koji, an old man
of forty-nine., in the Zodiac year of the Hare, of the period of
Ansei, 1854 to i860 a.d. Hichi-sho, who died about 1858, was
the greatest master, in modern times, of the art of writing
;
the title of Koji is one which is assumed by scholars.
