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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE JAPAN UKIYO-E MUSEUM, MATSUMOTO

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE JAPAN UKIYO-E
MUSEUM, MATSUMOTO
98
KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)
Snake, bird and cherry blossoms
Signed saki no Hokusai aratame gakyo rojin manji hitsu
and with a red seal
Two paintings mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and
color on paper
10¿ x 14¿ in. (25.7 x 35.9 cm.) each
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE:
Sakai Tokichi (1915-1993)
EXHIBITED:
“Three Hundred Years of Ukiyo-e / Exhibition of
Masterpieces from The Sakai Collection,” Tobu
Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, 18-27 October
1968
LITERATURE:
Three Hundred Years of Ukiyo-e / Exhibition of
Masterpieces from The Sakai Collection (Tokyo: Nihon
Keizai Shinbun, Inc., 1968). no. 60
During the Tempo famine, Hokusai worked on
many of album leaf paintings of birds and animals
like present lot. The 1835 advertisement by
publisher Nishimuraya Yuzo refers about the sale
of album paintings Hokusai. For a closely related
paintings formerly in Nagata Seiji Collection in the
Shimane Art Museum, see Nagata Seiji, Hokusai
Updated (Tokyo: Mori Arts Center Gallery, 2019),
pp. 255-57.