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TEISAI HOKUBA (1771-1844)
WOMEN AND CHILD
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1820-40
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink, mineral colours and
gofun (calcified powdered shell) on silk in silk mounts,
depicting two richly dressed women and a male
child, the little boy holding up two buds, in a spring
landscape with pine, bamboo and flowering cherry
blossom, in the background pedlars and peasants
walking between rice paddies and a more distant
view of a lake, sailing boats and a Shinto shrine;
signed Teisai and sealed; with an inner wood storage
box and an outer lacquered wood storage box.
Overall: 184.5cm x 59cm (199.4in x 23¼in);
image: 104cm × 41.2cm (41in × 16½in). (3).

£5,000 - 6,000
JPY660,000 - 790,000
US$6,200 - 7,400
One of Hokusai’s first pupils, Teisai Hokuba started
his career as an illustrator of poetry anthologies and
novels, but later specialized in hanging scrolls of
beautiful women executed in fine colourful detail,
often (as in the present lot) against an ink-wash
landscape background depicting the outskirts of Edo.

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