ANONYMOUS

ANONYMOUS, KANO SCHOOL

EDO PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY

A Japanese painting in ink on paper depicting a farmer in a bamboo grove, the man using an adze to dig out bamboo shoots while snow falls around him, together with an ink painting of a monk holding a broom, possibly Jittoku, both framed and glazed, 50cm x 35cm max. (2)

Provenance: from the Milne Henderson collection of Japanese art.

The larger painting may be a depiction of Moso, one of the Twenty-Four Paragons of Filial Piety often represented digging for bamboo shoots to feed his sick mother.