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SENGAI GIBON (1750-1837) HASEGAWA MASAHARU ANONYMOUS
Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century (CHIGYU, 1913-1993) Kamakura (1185-1333) or Muromachi
Tenjin, kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink on paper Showa era (1926-1989), mid/late 20th century (1333-1573) period, 14th/15th century
in silk mounts, depicting the deified form of Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink on paper in Shrine Pilgrimage; fragment of a makimono
the Heian-period statesman and culture hero silk mounts, inscribed with three Chinese (narrative horizontal scroll) mounted as a
Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) dressed in characters probably reading Daishogun (Great kakejiku, ink and colours on paper in silk
Chinese clothes and travelling to Tang-dynasty General), signed Chigyu sho and sealed mounts, depicting female pilgrims of different
China carrying a branch of blossoming Masaharu and Chigyu; with a plain wood classes arriving at one of the grand shrines in
prunus, his favourite flower and emblem, with storage box and outer sleeve. the mountainous Kumano region, at right two
an inscription, sealed Sengai, the jikusaki Overall: 194.5cm x 50.8cm (76 9/16in x 20in); female pilgrims on foot wearing characteristic
(scroll ends) of lacquered wood carved with image: 134cm x 33.2cm (52¾in x 13 1/16in). (3). conical straw hats approach the shrine’s main
the auspicious character Ju at each end; with torii arch, in the foreground the retinue of an
a wood tomobako inscribed outside Sengai £1,000 - 1,500 aristocratic woman on horseback with more
Osho hitsu Toto Tenjin zu (Picture of Tenjin JPY150,000 - 230,000 sophisticated headgear passes by, two male
crossing to China, brushed by Priest Sengai). US$1,400 - 2,000 figures within the shrine, unsigned; with a plain
Overall: 171.5cm x 44.7cm (67½in x 17 5/8in); wood storage box and cardboard slipcase.
image: 84.8cm x 28cm (33 3/8in x 11in). (2). Hasegawa Masaharu, who served two terms Overall: 113cm x 79cm (44½in x 31 1/8in);
as Major of Muroran City in Hokkaido, was a image: 27.5cm x 55cm (10 7/8in x 21 5/7in). (3).
£2,000 - 3,000 member of the Mainichi Newspaper Company
JPY300,000 - 450,000 Calligraphy Exhibition Committee. He £2,000 - 3,000
US$2,700 - 4,100 continued to create calligraphies with his left JPY300,000 - 450,000
hand even after his right arm was paralysed by US$2,700 - 4,100
Provenance: a stroke.
Purchased from S. Yabumoto, Tokyo, 1975.

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