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KITAGAWA NAGAMARO (DATES UNKNOWN) ANONYMOUS
Seven Gods of Good Fortune Celebrating New Year Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century
Edo period (1615-1868), probably mid-19th century A pair of six-panel miniature folding screens, in ink, colours, and gold
A six-panel byobu (folding screen), ink, colour and gofun on paper on paper, with silk borders and a black-lacquered wood frame, one
with silk borders mounted on wood lattice and within a wood frame, screen depicting a flock of cranes on the shores of a lake, in the
depicting the Shichifukujin (Seven Gods of Good Fortune) cavorting distance men on boats catching fish with their bare hands, others
on the balcony of a teahouse after an indulgent New Year banquet, pulling a fishing net filled with the day’s catch on to the shore, the other
a poem by Shokusanji (Ota Nanpo [1749-1823]) on the wood wall screen with boys in the foreground competing in a horse race and a
behind Bishamonten, signed Kitagawa Nagamaro hitsu group of spectators seated in front of pine trees, watching at opposite
with two seals Ki and Tagawa. ends of the shore; both screens unsigned.
Overall: 150.5cm x 274.8cm (59¼in x 108¼in); Each overall: 103.5cm x 43.5cm (40¾in x 17 1/8in);
image: 85cm x 259.6cm (33½in x 102¼in). image: 95.5cm x 35.5cm (37 9/16in x 14in). (2).
£2,000 - 3,000 £2,500 - 3,500
JPY390,000 - 580,000 JPY490,000 - 680,000
US$2,600 - 3,900 US$3,300 - 4,600
Provenance:
Purchased in 1984 at Y. Tsuruki & Co., Kyoto, Japan.

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