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ITAYA KEISHU HIROTAKA (1786-1831) ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUS
Edo period (1615-1868), probably Muromachi period (1333-1573), Edo period (1615-1868),
early/mid 19th century 14th/15th century early/mid 19th century
Bear hunting, a kakejuku, ink and colours Nezumi soshi (Tale of a Mouse); fragment of Sumo Wrestlers; kakejiku, ink and colours on
on silk in silk mounts, depicting a hunter on a makimono mounted as a kakejiku, ink and silk in silk mounts, the jikusaki (scroll ends)
horseback aiming a shotgun at a running bear, slight colour on paper in silk mounts, depicting carved in red lacquer, depicting two sumo
an Ainu attendant galloping in front; signed a procession of biwa hoshi (lute-playing champions confronting one another before
Hogen Keishu hitsu with seal Hirotaka no in; priests), personified as mice, some blind and a bout, at right Tanikaze Kajinosuke (1750
with a wood storage box inscribed Hogen being led by other mice, unsigned; with a plain -1795), at left perhaps his great rival Onogawa
Keishu kumagari no zu (Picture of bear hunting wood storage box. Kisaburo (1758-1806), the umpire crouching
by Hogen Keishu), with an outer cloth-bound Overall: 103.6cm x 47.7cm (40¾in x 18¾in); behind them, each with an assistant carrying
box. Overall: 170cm x 128cm image: 24.7cm x 30cm (9¾in x 11 13/16in). (2). a sword with a long hilt, unsigned; with a plain
(66 15/16in x 50 3/8in); wood storage box. Overall: 158cm x 72cm
image: 62.5cm x 108cm (24 5/8in x 42½in). (3). £10,000 - 12,000 (62¼in x 28 3/8in); image: 40.5cm x 56cm
JPY1,500,000 - 1,800,000 (15 7/8in x 22in). (2).
£4,000 - 5,000 US$14,000 - 16,000
JPY610,000 - 760,000 £1,500 - 2,000
US$5,400 - 6,800 Published: JPY230,000 - 300,000
Tokyo National Museum: Tokubetsuten: Emaki US$2,000 - 2,700
(Special Exhibition: Illustrated Hand Scrolls),
exhibition catalogue, Tokyo National Museum,
1974, cat.no.118.
Exhibited:
Tokyo National Museum, Tokubetsuten: Emaki
(Special Exhibition: Illustrated Hand Scrolls),
10 October-24 November, 1974.
This scroll forms part of the ‘Story of a Mouse’,
a familiar tale in Japanese medieval literature.
A mouse who wished for his offspring to be
born as humans transformed himself in human
guise to marry a young woman, who on their
wedding night discovers his true identity and
immediately leaves him, forcing the mouse to
seek solace in the priesthood.

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