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涅槃寂静 | THE COLLECTION OF DAVID AND NAYDA UTTERBERG (LOTs 1-20)

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ANONYMOUS (JAPAN, 17TH CENTURY) ISHIKAWA JOZAN (JAPAN, 1583-1672)
Thirteen Buddhas A small and fragile scroll, probably in its original state, without Cranes Dance in Clouds over Millennium-old Trees

Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper remounting, shows Thirteen Buddhas, arranged in three vertical Signed Gansenshi and sealed Gansenken and Sekio
21º x 9¿ in. (54 x 23.2 cm.) columns. It is a very early type of Otsu-e, folk paintings sold to Hanging scroll; ink on paper
travelers in the shops of Otsu, a town on the Tokaido highway 45Ω x 8¡ in. (115.6 x 21.3 cm.)
$10,000-15,000 near the southern tip of Lake Biwa, in Shiga Prefecture. A few
大津絵 十三佛図 other examples of this subject are known, but they are rare. Secular $15,000-20,000
subjects—falconers, courtesans, demons—were popular in later
PROVENANCE: years. 石川丈山筆 一行書
London Gallery, Tokyo PROVENANCE:
A very similar example was published by Kiyoshi Yokoi, a partner Yoshiaki Shimizu
and managing director at Mayuyama & Co., in his book, Early Hiroshi Sugimoto, New York, 15 May 1988
Otsu-e (Tokyo: Mayuyama & Co,, 1958), Pl. 2. Yokoi points out
that most extant examples of Otsu-e are nineteenth century. One EXHIBITED:
of the largest collections of Otsu-e is in the Minneapolis Institute of Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield, Masters of Japanese
Art, a 1999 gift of Harriet and Edson Spencer, who acquired their Calligraphy: 8th-19th Century (New York: The Asia Society Galleries
first piece from Mr. Yokoi at the Mayuyama gallery in the arcade and Japan House Gallery, 1984), exh. cat. no. 112
of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo in 1960.