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SHIBATA BAN’YO (1885-1942)
Taisho era (1912–1926), early 20th century
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk in silk mounts,
depicting dancers at the Obon midsummer festival in the precincts of
a Shinto shrine, surrounded by giant sugi (cryptomeria) trees and lit by
lanterns inscribed Odori (Dance) and Wakanaka (Young Men’s Group),
signed Ban’yo seisaku (Done from life by Ban’yo) and sealed Ban’yo;
with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed Mori no odori Ban’yo
jidai (Dance in the Grove, inscribed by Ban’yo) and sealed Ban’yo.
Overall: 228cm x 110cm (89¾in x 43 3/8in);
image: 155cm x 85cm (61in x 33½in). (2).
£2,500 - 3,000
JPY360,000 - 440,000
US$3,300 - 3,900

Born to a samurai family in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, Shibata Ban’yo
graduated in 1912 from the art school in nearby Kyoto and was
apprenticed to Yamamoto Shunkyo. He received a Silver Medal at the
1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, became an assistant
instructor at Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, and showed
his work at the Bunten and successive national exhibitions on six
occasions from 1912 to 1931.

250 *
ANONYMOUS 250 (part lot)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century
Makimono (horizontal handscroll), ink, colours and gold on paper,
depicting eight love-making scenes including a court noble and a
court lady, a wakashu and a young girl and two women and one man,
unsigned; with a wood storage box.
Overall: 397.5cm x 35cm (156½in x 13¾in);
image: 365.5cm x 35cm (143 7/8in x 13¾in). (2).

£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$1,300 - 2,000

251 *
ANONYMOUS
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Two makimono (horizontal handscroll): the first, ink, colours and gold
on silk, depicting 12 love-making scenes, including a man peeping at a
couple making love, a geisha entertaining a client and a young couple,
unsigned, overall: 331.5cm x 23.7cm (130 ½in x 9 5/16in),
image: 293.5cm x 21.1cm (115 9/16in x 8 5/16in); the second, ink,
colours on silk, depicting 12 scenes of love-making, the majority with
a chonin (townspeople) couple, each with a couple’s dialogue in the
upper section, unsigned, overall: 277cm x 25.7cm (109 1/16in x 10
1/8in), image: 243cm x 20cm (95 11/16in x 7 7/8in);
both with a wood storage box. (4).

£800 - 1,000
JPY120,000 - 150,000
US$1,000 - 1,300

251 (part lot)

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE JAPANESE ART | 159