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YAMAMOTO KOITSU (1843-1905)
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk in
silk mounts, depicting a male and female pheasant among
early summer plants including tanpopo (dandelions),
sugina (field horsetails), and sumire (violets); signed Seisei
Koitsu and sealed; with a wood storage box.
Overall: 137cm x 89cm (54in x 35 5/8in);
image: 46cm x 69cm (18 1/8in x 27 1/8in). (2).

£2,500 - 3,000
JPY360,000 - 440,000
US$3,300 - 3,900
The elder brother of Sakai Doitsu (see lot 243),
Yamamoto Koitsu (also pronounced Koichi) worked
as a designer for the Kiryu Kosho Kaisha Company, a
government-backed company that produced craft work
for export. In his later years he moved from Tokyo to
Kanazawa, where he painted larger-scale works and
mentored promising artists such as Ishizaki Koyo, whose
celebrated screens of Vying Peacocks are in the Nelson-
Atkins Museum, Kansas City. For Koitsu’s activities as a
designer, see Joe Earle, Suzuki Chokichi: Master of Metal
Raptors, in Victoria Weston ed., Eaglemania: Collecting
Japanese Art in Gilded Age America, exhibition catalogue,
Boston College, 2019, pp.25-30.

Ilustrated on page 147.
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YAMAMOTO KOITSU (1843-1905)
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk in
silk mounts, depicting a crow on a cherry branch against
the moon at dusk; signed Seisei Koitsu and sealed; with a
wood tomobako storage box inscribed Yakeisakurabana
seia no zu Yamamoto Koitsu hitsu (Painting of a crow
nesting in a cherry tree at night, brushed by Yamamoto
Koitsu). Overall: 171cm x 54cm (67 3/8in x 21¼in);
image: 100cm x 37cm (39 3/8in x 14½in). (2).

£3,000 - 4,000
JPY440,000 - 580,000
US$3,900 - 5,200

For information on Yamamoto Koitsu, please refer to the
footnote to the preceding lot.

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