Two Literati School Paintings


Late Edo period/Meiji eraA) School of Tanomura Chikuden, The Pleasure of Farming, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; portraying five women and a child harvesting fruit, with a sixty character colophon followed by the signature Chikudensei, with one seal Chikuden11 1/8 x 23 3/4in (18.3 x 60.4cm)B) After Nakabayashi Chikuto, Plum Blossom Valley, hanging scroll, ink and color on paper; the spring landscape with a solitary figure walking over a bridge, the mountains in the distance shrouded in mist, bearing the signature Chikuto sanjin, with two seals Nariaki ga in and Chikuto sanjin (wrinkles). 50 1/2 x 18in (128 x 45.7cm)