Anonymous


Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryTwo-panel folding screen made up of cedarwood panels in partially red-lacquered frames, ink and colours on wood, depicting a courtesan with a samurai client armed with the customary two swords and another courtesan with her young kamuro (attendant) carrying an outsize kiseru (tobacco pipe), all gorgeously attired in fashionable garments of the early to mid-seventeenth century, the reverse painted wtih autumn grasses and the full mooon; unsigned. Overall: 165.7cm x 157cm (65¼in x 61¾in); each image: 160.5cm x 74cm (63 1/8in x 29 1/8in).