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OTHER PROPERTIES 3039 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF
OTAGAKI RENGETSU (1791-1875) FRANK KORN, TOKYO
3037 Landscape with Poem
NAKABAYASHI CHIKUTO (1776-1853) Fan painting mounted as a hanging scroll, 3041
Late Spring at Pond’s Edge ink on paper; an abbreviated landscape SUZUKI HYAKUNEN (1825-1891)
Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk; of with classical Japanese poem on autumn in Snowy Landscape
a frog and insects amid blossoming lotus, cursive script, signed Rengetsu Hanging scroll, ink on silk; a misty view of
signed Chutan, with two seals Nariaki no in With a wood storage box distant mountains and a pair of birds in flight
and Azana Hakumei 18 1/4in (46.5cm) wide above snow-covered pine trees, signed
With a wood storage box $800 - 1,200 Hakunen, with one seal
43 7/8 x 17 7/8in (111.3 x 45.3cm) With a wood storage box
$1,000 - 1,500 Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875), a Buddhist 13 5/8 x 21 3/4in (34.6 x 55.5cm)
nun, is regarded as one of the foremost $1,000 - 1,500
3038 Japanese poets of the 19th century, and is
NAKAHARA NANTENBO (1839-1925) also celebrated for her calligraphy and painting. Suzuki Hyakunen, though originally trained
Calligraphy by a member of the Maruyama school, was
Hanging scroll, ink on silk; two columns of 3040 known for his eclectic style incorporating
a seven-character Chinese poetic couplet, UKIYO-E SCHOOL (18TH CENTURY) elements from various Japanese painting
signed hachijuichi-o Nantenbo Toju, sealed Courtesan and Misbehaving Lover ateliers. His literati lifestyle and devotion to
Nantenbo, Haku[] kutsu and Toju Hanging scroll, ink, color and gilt on Chinese classics are reflected in many of his
With a wood storage box with collector’s paper; of courtesan pulling on the ear of a sensitively rendered paintings. One of the
inscription dated to 1923 male client reading a love letter, a geisha, principle instructors of the Kyoto Prefecture
49 5/8 x 16 1/8in (126 x 41.3cm) attendant and another courtesan by her Painting School, he won many prizes in the
$1,200 - 1,800 side, with one seal ‘Doshin’ major Meiji-era exhibitions.
14 7/8 x 21 5/8in (37.8 x 54.8cm)
The biography and examples of works by $2,000 - 3,000 Literature
Nantenbo is provided in Audrey Yoshiko Seo Paul Berry and Michiyo Morioka, Modern
and Stephen Addiss, The Art of Twentieth- Masters of Kyoto, Seattle, 1999, pp. 63-67.
Century Zen: Painting and Calligraphy by
Japanese Masters, Boston and London,
2000, pp.17-34.
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