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TOKUYAMA GYOKURAN (1728-1784) AFTER MIYAGAWA CHOSHUN ATTRIBUTED TO MIYAGAWA ISSHO
Chinese Landscape (1682-1752) (1689-1780)
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1760–1780 Woman Playing a Koto Cherry-blossom Party
Sensu (folding-fan) leaf mounted as a kakejiku Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century Edo period (1615-1868), mid-18th century
(vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink, colours Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and
myoban- (alum-) treated paper mounted in and gold on silk in silk mounts, the black- colours on paper mounted in silk, depicting
silk and sarasa (printed cotton), depicting a lacquer jikusaki (scroll ends) with gold-lacquer a lively scene of courtesans, clients and
Chinese landscape with pavilions, huts and decoration of butterflies and grasses, depicting monks enjoying a cherry-blossom-viewing
a bridge over a river, signed Gyokuran 玉瀾 a woman dressed in a richly embroidered party in the mountains; with a double wood
with seals Gyoku玉, Ran 瀾; with attestations kimono kneeling and playing a koto, an open tomobako storage box, the inner box with
signed by Taigado Sadasuke (d.1910) and suzuribako (box for writing utensils) to her a paper cover inscribed outside Miyagawa
Tomioka Tessai (1837-1924), fitted with right, with signature Yamato eshi Miyagawa Issho oka yuraku no zu 宮川一笑桜下遊
modern futomaki (large-diameter roller), Choshun zu 日本繪宮川長春圖 (painted by 楽之圖 (Miyagawa Issho, picture of an
a plain wood storage box and the Japanese artist Miyagawa Choshun) and entertainment under cherry trees).
an outer cardboard box. seal Choshun 長春; with a wood tomobako Overall: 152.5cm x 107.5cm (59 7/8in x 42 3/8in);
Overall: 113cm x 67.5cm (44½in x 26½in); storage box inscribed outside Shinkei tankin image: 51.5cm x 85cm (20¼in x 33½in). (3).
radius: 18cm (7 1/8in); width: 50.5cm no zu Miyagawa Choshun hitsu 深閨彈琴之圖
(19 7/8in). (5). 宮川長春筆 (Painting of koto-playing in the £4,000 - 6,000
inner bedchamber, brushed by Miyagawa JPY590,000 - 890,000
£3,000 - 4,000 Choshun). US$5,300 - 7,900
JPY440,000 - 590,000 Overall: 126cm x 65cm (49 5/8in x 25 5/8in);
US$4,000 - 5,300 image: 32.5cm x 38.9cm (12¾in x 15¼in). (2).

For these seals, see Felice Fischer, Ike Taiga £800 - 1,000
and Tokuyama Gyokuran: Japanese Masters JPY120,000 - 150,000
of the Brush, Philadelphia Museum of Art, US$1,100 - 1,300
2007, p.488, no.GS3.

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