Japanese Works of Art - 15 Nov 2022

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OGASAWARA NAGANARI (1867-1958)

£200 - £400

OGASAWARA NAGANARI (1867-1958)

YOSHIO (PROBABLY ACT. 19TH C.),

KAKIMOTO SHIGEFUJI (DATES UNKNOWN),

GOHO (DATES UNKNOWN), AND OTHERS

MEIJI AND LATER, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER

A collection of eight Japanese paintings, including four kakemono (hanging scroll paintings) and four makimono (handscroll paintings), three printed and the fourth painted, all with calligraphy; one on a silk mount decorated with mitsu-tomoe designs, inscribed Shizukanaru, yomiwa sakarimo, hisakatano, hikarizo hana no, kokoro o miru, signed Yoshio; another inscribed with kotobuki (happy long life), signed Naganari sho and with three seals; a panel of calligraphy possibly signed Tokugyo / Noriyuki, with seals reading Kakimoto Shigefuji no in and Go Osen, inscribed 'The river and the sea do not choose the smallest streams. Therefore they can become deep', the verse taken from a Chinese original; another signed Goho koji kan sho and with a poem about a large pine forest and mountain peaks set against a valley with streams; and others, six in tomobako wood boxes, 423cm x 16.5cm max. (14)

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