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TOSA MITSUSADA (1738-1806)
TATEBINA DOLLS
Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1800
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink and colours on paper in modern silk mounts
incorporating parts of an Edo-period kimono, depicting two tatebina dolls,
an emperor and a smaller empress beneath an inscription by Hino Sukeki,
signed Edokoro Azukari Tosa Mitsusada (Tosa Mitsusada, Head of the
Imperial Painting Bureau) and sealed Mitsusada no in (Seal of Mitsusada);
with a wooden tomobako storage box inscribed outside Tatebina Hino Sukeki
san Tosa Mitsusada ga (Tatebina Dolls, inscription by Hino Sukeki, painting
by Tosa Mitsusada.
Overall: 154cm x 46.5cm (61 5/8in x 18 5/8in);
image: 81.5cm x 26cm (32in x 10¼in). (2).
£2,500 - 3,000
JPY330,000 - 400,000
US$3,100 - 3,700
Hino Sukeki (1737-1801) was a leading imperial palace courtier and poet
who attained the senior rank of Juichii (as indicated on the inscription to
this painting) some time after 1785. His inscriptions are found on many
paintings by Kyoto artists active in the mid-Edo period, including—in addition
to Tosa Mitsusada—such leading names as Maruyama Okyo, Nagasawa
Rosetsu, Komai Genki and Kishi Ganku; see Tashiro Kazuha, ‘Hino Sukeki
no gasan (Painting Inscriptions by Hino Sukeki)’, Kinsei bungei, 101 (2015),
pp.17-30, note 9, accessible at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/
kinseibungei/101/0/101_17/_pdf/-char/ja

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NOZAKI SHIN’ITSU (1821-1910)
NOH ACTOR IN SHOJO ROLE
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink and colour on silk in silk mounts, depicting the
principal actor in the Noh drama Shojo (The Drunken Spirit), with red wig,
fan, mask, and elaborately patterned silk robes, signed Momosai Shin’itsu
and sealed, with a wood storage box.
Overall: 174cm x 51cm (68½in x 20in);
image: 95cm x 31.7cm (37 3/8in x 12½in). (2).
£2,500 - 3,000
JPY330,000 - 400,000
US$3,100 - 3,700
Also known as Nozaki Hosei, this artist—likely a pupil of Suzuki Kiitsu—is
recorded having exhibited his work from 1882 to 1891; see https://www.
tobunken.go.jp/materials/banduke_name/802181.html. For another example
of his work, see Bonhams London, The Ethereal Brush, 10 November 2016, lot 117.

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SUZUKI SHUITSU (1823-1889)
PLUM BRANCH
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1880
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting a
vertical branch of plum with a few buds and blossoms, signed Seisei Shuitsu
and with a fan-shaped seal; with a wood storage box.
Overall: 166cm x 22.5cm (65 3/8in x 8 7/8in);
image: 100cm × 16.1cm (39 3/8in × 6 3/8in). (2).
£1,000 - 1,500
JPY130,000 - 200,000
US$1,200 - 1,900
Suzuki Shuitsu was the eldest son of Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858), himself the
senior student of Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828), the great reviver of the Rinpa style
of painting, expressed here in its typical late Edo-period or Meiji-era iteration.

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