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TWO JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTINGS, KAKEMONO
MEIJI PERIOD OR LATER, 19 OR 20 CENTURY
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One depicting a kaleidoscope of butterflies fluttering on a bare ground, signed
to the lower right corner and with two red seal marks, 108cm x 41cm, the
other in the style of Kishi Ganku (1749-1839) and depicting a ferocious-looking
tiger emerging from behind rockwork, with bamboo above, a red seal mark to
the lower left cover, 98cm x 32cm. (2)
£200-300

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A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO
MEIJI PERIOD, 19 CENTURY
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Depicting an extensive mountainous river landscape, with a fisherman
in the foreground, willow trees and buildings nestled in the hillside and
a tiered pagoda in the distance, inscribed with calligraphy and with
three seal marks, 125cm x 49cm.
£200-300
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A JAPANESE SCROLL PAINTING, KAKEMONO
EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 18 CENTURY OR LATER
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In ink on paper, depicting a nine-storey pagoda amongst clouds with a
stream meandering in the foreground and trees behind, signed in the
lower right corner Hanabusa Itcho (1652-1724) and with a red seal,
111cm x 15cm.
£200-400
Provenance: an English private collection, London and Shetland.
This scroll painting possibly depicts one of the two pagodas that stood in
the 8th century in Todaiji, Nara.
See the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, access.
no.F1904.388, for another painting of a multi-storey pagoda signed
Hanabusa Itcho, formerly in the collection of Michael Tomkinson
(1841-1921).

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