ATTRIBUTED TO TAKAHASHI CHIKUNEN (1887-1967)

ATTRIBUTED TO TAKAHASHI CHIKUNEN (1887-1967)

EDO AND LATER, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

Three Japanese kakemono (hanging scroll paintings), two depicting Daruma, one in ink on paper with lines of calligraphy above, signed Daruma O (Old Man Daruma) with kao and dedicated to Edward S. Stevenson (written in katakana); the other in ink and colour on silk with the Father of Zen Buddhism and his pet shishi, anonymous; the third kakemono depicting Kanzan and Jittoku, with calligraphy above reading 'Painted by Chikunen, in the year of Mizunotou'; one with a tomobako box, 158cm x 86cm max. (4)