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ANONYMOUS FUDO RITSUZAN (1886-1975)
Jigoku Dayu Two beauties and a Firefly
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1900 Taisho (1912-1926), circa 1920
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink and colour on silk, in silk mounts, depicting Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink, gold, and colours on silk, in silk mounts,
Jigoku Dayu (The Hell Courtesan) seated in a black kimono decorated a summer evening indoor scene depicting two women, the younger
with images of Hell including the dead being tortured by oni (demons), woman just out of her bath holding a fan decorated with an aubergine and
playing the shamisen before a dancing skeleton holding a fan; unsigned; a cucumber, emerging from behind a sudare (bamboo blind), the second
with a plain wood storage box. woman standing behind her holding up the hem of her yukata, both
Overall: 202cm x 62cm (79½in x 24 7/16in); women looking at the firefly trapped on the bamboo slats; signed Ritsuzan
image: 114cm x 42.5cm (44 13/16in x 16¼in). (2). utsushi with a seal Ritsuzan, with double tomobako wood storage boxes,
the inner box inscribed outside the lid Hotaru no zu (Picture of fireflies) and
£3,500 - 4,000 inscribed inside the lid Taisho kyunen jyunigatsu Rituzan dai
JPY680,000 - 780,000 (Titled by Koyama Munehira in December 1920) with two seals.
US$4,600 - 5,200 Overall: 178cm x 97.5cm (70 1/16in x 38 3/8in);
image: 65.5cm x 75cm (25 9/16in x 29½in). (3).
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ANONYOMUS £4,500 - 5,000
Kanbun Beauty JPY880,000 - 970,000
Edo period (1615-1868), probably 18th century US$5,900 - 6,500
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), in ink, colour, and gold on paper, in silk mounts,
depicting a beauty of the Kanbun era (1661-1673) wearing a kosode Published and Illustrated:
(short-sleeved kimono) decorated with a large floral pattern and bridges, Ogawa Tomoko and Minami Yukiko, Japan byuti: Egakareta Nihon bijin:
standing against a plain background sprinkled with gold powders, her left Shirarezaru puraibeto korekushon (Japan Beauty: Enchanting Bijinga
hand concealed inside her sleeve and tucking up the hem of her kimono Paintings Treasured In a Private Collection), exhibition catalogue, Sendai,
with the other, unsigned; the jikusaki (roller-ends) decorated in Tokyo, and Osaka, Art System, 2013, p.60, pl.32.
gold takamaki-e with butterflies and karakusa (‘Chinese grasses’);
with double wood storage boxes and a futomaki.
Overall: 220cm x 75cm (86 5/8in x 29 1/8in);
image: 120cm x 53cm (47¼in x 20 7/8in). (4).
£3,000 - 4,000
JPY580,000 - 780,000
US$3,900 - 5,200

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