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NAKAMURA HOCHU (DIED 1819)
Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th/early 19th century
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on paper
in silk mounts, depicting a cockerel and hen in a few deft
strokes; signed Hochu kore o utsusu (Hochu drew this)
and sealed; with a titled and inscribed wood
tomobako storage box.
Overall: 199cm x 45.7cm (75¼in x 18in);
image: 96cm x 27cm (37¾in x 10 5/8in). (3).
£2,000 - 3,000
JPY290,000 - 440,000
US$2,600 - 3,900

A practitioner of the Rinpa style in the years before its
revival by Sakai Hoitsu around 1815, Nakamura Hochu
appears to have been born in Kyoto and to have lived in
Osaka from the 1790s until his death in 1819. He is also
likely to have spent time in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in
the 1790s and early 1800s. For comparable studies of
cockerels and hens by this artist, see Ito Shiori ed., Korin
o shitau Nakamura Hochu (Hochu Meets Korin), exhibition
catalogue, Chiba City Museum of Art, 2014, cat. nos.98-99.

230 Y Ф
ATTRIBUTED TO KANO NATSUO (1828-1898)
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century
A pair of kakejiku (vertical hanging scrolls), ink on paper
in silk mounts with ivory jikusaki (roller-ends), depicting
Ebisu (right) and Daikoku (left), two of the Gods of Good
Fortune; each sealed Na-tsu-o and Nihon kinko (Japanese
metalwork); with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed
Ebisu Daikoku tsuifuku Senko Natsuo shohitsu Taisho
jusannen kinoe-nedoshi risshu no hi Kano Akio kore o
shikisu (A pair of scrolls of Ebisu and Daikoku, a true work
from the brush of my father Natsuo, recorded by Kano
Akio in mid-August 1924) and sealed Shusui.
Each overall: 175.5cm x 42.3cm (69 1/8in x 16 5/8in);
image: 91cm x 25.2cm (35¾in x 10in). (3).

£18,000 - 20,000
JPY2,600,000 - 2,900,000
US$24,000 - 26,000

For the two seals used on these paintings, see
Miyake Teruyoshi, Natsuo taikan: Kano Natsuo kaisetsu
(A Comprehensive Collection of Natsuo: Commentary on
Kano Natsuo), Tokyo, Chugoku Paaru Hanbai, 1990, p.78,
left and centre images in the fourth row.

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