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TERASAKI KOGYO (1866-1919)
Evening Landscape
Meiji era (1868-1912), early 20th century
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink on paper in silk mounts, depicting
a moonlit pine forest by a shore, signed at lower left Kogyo and
sealed Sozan
Overall 72 3/4 x 23in (185 x 58cm); image 40 x 15 3/4in (102
x 40cm).

$4,000 - 6,000
A versatile artist, Terasaki Kogyo studied with a wide variety of
teachers – in the Kano, Murayama-Shijo, and Nanga traditions
– before settling in the early 1900s on his own distinctive semi-
abstract tonal ink landscape manner which echoes that of
several other late-Meiji ink painters, such as Tsuji Kako. He was
also famous as a designer of war prints and lithographs and a
painter of beautiful women.

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KONDO KOICHIRO (1884-1962)
Late Spring in Northern Honshu
Showa era (1926-1989), mid-20th century
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink on paper in silk mounts, depicting
a cloudy mountain landscape composed in traditional Chinese
manner, in the foreground a pine forest looming over a solitary
farmer working with a water buffalo in a rice paddy, signed at
top right Koichiro sha (Drawn by Koichiro) with a seal
With a wooden tomobako storage box inscribed Koshiji
309 banshun (Late spring in northern Honshu) and signed Koichiro
dai (Inscribed by Koichiro) with the same seal
Overall 86 1/4 x 22 3/4in (219 x 58cm); image 53 3/4 x 15in
(136 x 38cm)

$4,000 - 6,000
Famous for his cartoons and illustrations for books and
newspapers, Kondo Koichiro worked in Western style during
his early career but switched to atmospheric Japanese-style
landscape painting during the second decade of the twentieth
century. He traveled widely in Japan, including Hokkaido, as
well as to China and Europe, where he captured the attention
310 of André Malraux, who included a Japanese-style ink painter
named Kama, based on Kondo, in his novel La Condition
humaine.
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KAWAI GYOKUDO (1873-1957)
Two Cranes
Showa era (1926-1989), mid-20th century
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink and slight color on paper in silk
mounts, depicting a pair of tanchozuru (Manchurian cranes)
standing in turbulent water, signed at top right Gyokudo with
a seal
Overall 56 x 25 1/2in (142 x 65cm); image 16 x 20in (41 x
51cm)
$1,500 - 2,500

One of the most popular and influential Japanese-style artists
of the early twentieth century, Kawai Gyokudo worked in an
eclectic manner that combines elements of both the Asian and
the Western tradition. The present scroll reflects his early study
of the Shijo style of naturalistic, closely observed painting,
expressed with masterful command of ink brushwork.
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