Seventeen paintings


Various artists, Edo period (1615-1868), Meiji (1868-1912), Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, 18th-20th centuriesComprising as follows:1) Artist UnknownEdo period (1615-1868), 18th-19th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on paper in silk mounts, depicting Amida Buddha, the bodhisattvas Monju and Fugen, guardians and other deities, with signature Kano Fujiwara Nobumasa hitsu and seal, overall: 175.8cm x 52.3cm (69¼in x 20 5/8in); image: 88.3cm x 33.5cm (34¾in x 13¼in)2) After Ogata Korin (1658-1716)Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th-early 20th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting a bonsai arrangement, with signature Hokkyo Korin and seal Hoshuku, overall: 173.3cm x 47cm (68¼in x 18½in); image: 94.8cm x 32.3cm (37¼in x 12¾in)3) After Ogata Korin (1658-1716)Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th-early 20th century, ink, colour on silk, depicting a potted plum plant, with signature Hokkyo Korin and seal, overall: 172.3cm x 47cm (67 7/8in x 18½in); image: 96cm x 32.4cm (37¾in x 13 1/8in)4) After Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828)Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting a frog and cherry petals, with a haikai poem, with signature Hoitsu gadai (Painted and inscribed by Hoitsu) and seal, overall: 123.6cm x 68.4cm (48 5/8in x 27in); image: 30.2cm x 48.7cm (11 7/8in x 19¼in)5) After Shibata Zeshin (1807-1891)Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th-early 20th centuryFan leaf mounted as a kakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on paper in silk mounts, depicting sailboats with Mount Fuji in the background, with signature Hachijuichi-o Zeshin (Zeshin, aged 81) and seal, overall: 100.5cm x 59.8cm (39½in x 24in), radius: 13.2cm (5¼in); width: 47.2cm (18 5/8in)6) Kikuchi Yosai (1788-1878)Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting a samurai band lying in ambush, signed Yosai Yushi and sealed Takeyasu, overall: 201.3cm x 52.8cm (79¼in x 20¾in); image: 98.9cm x 32.6cm (39in x 12 7/8in)7) Kikuchi Yosai (1788-1878)Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1865Kakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting Kojima Takanori beneath a cherry tree on whose trunk he carves an inscription expressing his confidence in the restoration of imperial power, signed Nanajuhachi-o Kikuchi Takeyasu (Kikuchi Takeyasu, aged 78) and sealed Takeyasu, overall: 180.6cm x 58.2cm (71¼in x 22 7/8in); image: 90.2cm x 38.9cm (35½in x 15¼in)8) Kikuchi Yosai (1788-1878)Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji (1868-1912) era, 19th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting a samurai amphibious operation, signed Yosai Itsujin and sealed Yosai, overall: 194.3cm x 61cm (76½in x 24in); image: 102.4cm x 40.8cm (40¼in x 16 1/8in)9) Nemoto Seppo (b.1879)Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, early-mid 20th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink on silk in silk mounts, depicting brightly coloured pheasant on a rock on which daisies grow, with a waterfall in the background, signed and sealed Seppo, overall: 211.2cm x 60.4cm (83¼in x 23¾in); image: 130cm x 42cm (51 1/8in x 16½in)10) After Tsuji Kako (1870-1931)Showa era (1926-1989), early-mid 20th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting clematis growing in profusion, with signature and seal Kako, overall: 209cm x 61.4cm (82½in x 24 1/8in); image: 127.5cm x 47cm (50¼in x 16¼in)11) After Tosa Mitsuoki (1617-1691)Edo period, 18th-19th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink on silk in silk mounts, depicting Murasaki Shikibu in the Ishiyamadera Temple composing the Tale of Genji, with signature Edokoro Azukari Shogoige Tosa no Kami Fujiwara Mitsuoki, overall: 175.2cm x 38.5cm (69in x 15¼in); image: 93.7cm x 26.9cm (36 7/8in x 10 5/8in)12) After Uemura Shoen (1875-1949)Showa era (1926-1989), mid-20th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink on silk in silk mounts, depicting an elaborately coiffed and costumed geisha by a rustic window, with signature Shoen jo and seal Shoen, overall: 123.1cm x 60.1cm (48½in x 23 5/8in); image: 40.2cm x 40.7cm (13¾in x 16in)13) Kaburaki Kiyokata (1878-1972)Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, early-mid 20th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink on silk in silk mounts, depicting a woman looking out from between amado shutters after a storm, signed Kiyokata and sealed, overall: 135.9cm x 67.7cm (53½in x 26 5/8in); image: 41.8cm x 48.5cm (16½in x 19 1/8in)14) Yokoo Hogetsu (1897-1990)Showa era (1926-1989), mid-late 20th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink on paper in silk mounts, depicting a woman in kimono by autumn plants, signed Hogetsu and sealed Yokoo Hogetsu, overall: 206.1cm x 49.6cm (81¼in x 19½in); image: 125.4cm x 31.9cm (49 3/8in x 12½in)15) Murata Kokoku (1831-1912)Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryKakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and white pigment on paper in silk mounts, depicting a Chinese woman reading by a circular window, with a flowering plum tree, inscribed with a Chinese poem and signed Kokoku with two seals, overall: 195.6cm x 53.4cm (77in x 21in); image: 124.4cm x 32.7cm (49in x 12 7/8in)16) Oda Kaisen (1785-1862)Edo period (1615-1868), 1846Kakejiku (hanging scroll); ink and slight colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting a Chinese-style landscape in the manner of Shen Zhou (1427-1509), inscribed Chin Keinan no hitsui o naratte Koka sannen Kacho Kaisen sha (Drawn by Kacho Kaisen in 1846 in the manner of Shen Qinan) and sealed Kaisen, overall: 172.2cm x 43cm (68in x 16 7/8in); image: 97.1cm x 26.7cm (38½in x 10½in)17) Artist UnknownMeiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryAn unmounted length of silk printed with various colourful figure, bird-and-flower and landscape designs; 291cm x 49cm (114in x 19¼in) and an unassociated wooden storage box. 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