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FOuR wOOdBlOck PRINTS
81 * Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Keisai
wOMAN PlAyINg A kOTO Eisen (1790–1848), and Utagawa Toyokuni
After Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752), Edo (1769–1825)
period The first depicting the Motomachi Detour
A vertical hanging scroll in ink, colours and from the ‘Fifty-three Stations of Tokaido’ by
gold on silk in silk mounts, the black-lacquer Hiroshige, the second an urban landscape
jikusaki (scroll ends) with gold-lacquer of Yushima Daijinja from the series ‘Edo
decoration of butterflies and grasses, Meisho’ by Hiroshige, the third a barefoot bijin
depicting a woman dressed in a richly beneath flowering plum tree by Toyokuni, and
embroidered kimono kneeling and playing a the fourth a bijin with candle by Eisen.
koto, with signature Yamato eshi Miyagawa Each oban 37.5cm x 24cm, and framed and
Choshun zu (painted by the Japanese artist glazed (4).
Miyagawa Choshun) and seal Choshun.
Image 32.5cm x 38.9cm, overall: 126cm x £300 - 400
65cm (2).
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£500 - 600 TwO kAkeMONO By NOMuRA
BuNkyO (1854-1911)
The storage box inscribed outside Shinkei Meiji era
tankin no zu Miyagawa Choshun hitsu The first is in the Shijo-style depicting two
(Painting of koto-playing in the inner figures drinking tea in a pine grove beside a
bedchamber, brushed by Miyagawa stream, clouds swirl among the tree tops,
Choshun). with inscription and seal, colour and ink on
silk, image 119.5cm x 42.5cm, mounted on
silk brocade with ivory scroll ends, with box,
the second in the Nanga-style of a pavilion
behind pine trees beside flowering river
reeds, signed Bunkyo with seals, colour and
ink on silk mounted on silk brocade with ivory
scroll ends.
image 139cm x 42cm, and with box (4).

£400 - 600

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For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
20 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.