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YAMANOUCHI SHIN’ICHI (BORN 1890) KONOSHIMA OKOKU (1877-1938)
Chrysanthemums Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, early 20th century
Taisho era (1912–1926), March 1922 Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and slight colour on silk, depicting
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk in silk mounts, a recumbent dog, probably a border collie, looking up at three sparrows
depicting a group of show chrysanthemums in different containers, in fluttering around a stalk of fuyo (rose mallow) bending in the gentle
the background a bamboo fence supporting a cosmos plant, signed breeze, signed Okoku with seal Okoku; with a wood tomobako storage
Shin’ichi 信一 with a seal Yamanouchi Shin’ichi 山内信一; with a box inscribed Shunen kankyo (Relaxed and Pleasurable Moment in a
wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside Niwa no ki Heiwahaku Spring Garden), the inside of the lid signed Okoku dai (titled by Okoku)
shuppin hojo juryo Taisho juichinen sangatsu saku Yamanouchi with seal, with an outer wood storage box. Overall: 218.5cm x 89cm
Shin’ichi 庭の気 平和博出品褒状受領 大正十一年三月作 (86in x 35in); image: 124cm x 68cm (48¾in x 26¾in). (3).
山内信一 (‘Garden Spirit’ by Yamanouchi Shin’ichi, March 1922,
recipient of the Certificate of Merit at the Peace Memorial Tokyo £1,500 - 2,000
Exhibition). Overall: 203.5cm x 147.5cm (80 1/8in x 58in); JPY220,000 - 300,000
image: 144.5cm x 115.5cm (56 7/8in x 45½in). (2). US$2,000 - 2,600

£3,000 - 4,000 119 *
JPY440,000 - 590,000
US$4,000 - 5,300 UEMURA SHOEN (1875-1949)
Shunsho (Spring Evening)
Exhibited Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, mid-20th century
Heiwa Kinen Tokyo Hakurankai (Peace Memorial Tokyo Exhibition), Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on a silk tanzaku
Ueno Park, May 1922. in silk mounts, depicting an elaborately coiffured courtesan holding
a pipe, seen through a circular shoji (bamboo and paper screen),
A graduate of Kyoto Art School, Yamanouchi Shin’ichi (also known as signed Shoen ga 松園画 with seals Sho, en, the joge (top and bottom
Gaun) apprenticed with Nishiyama Suisho and exhibited 18 times at
the Bunten national exhibition and its successors from 1907 to 1941.

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