ATTRIBUTED TO KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1810s (2)ATTRIBUTED TO KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849)Edo period (1615-1868), circa 1810sProbably originally a leaf from an album, ink and slight colour on paper now mounted as a framed and glazed uchiwa-e (fan picture) depicting a semi-clad woman relaxing after her bath, seated and holding a fan before a chawan (tea bowl); signed Sakino Hokusai Taito hitsu with a red rectangular seal Yoshi no yama; with a cloth-bound cardboard box. Overall: 40cm x 62.1cm (15¾in x 24½in); image: 15cm x 35cm (5 7/8in x 13¾in). (2).Works by Hokusai with the same red rectangular 'Yoshi no yama' seal are extremely rare and found in only small works; for a fan painting of a namako (sea cucumber) in Shimane Municipal Museum, see Nagata Seiji ed., Hokusai nikuhitsuga taisei (Complete Collection of Paintings by Hokusai), Tokyo, Shogakukan, 2000, p.185, no.130, image also accessible at shimane-art-museum-ukiyoe.jp/selections/c-selections/nagata/h09.html. For another fan painting of a cockerel and chick in the collection of The British Museum where the seal was read as 'Fuji no yama': inv.no.1950,1111,0.18, see ibid., p.184, no.133; and Timothy Clark, Ukiyo-e Paintings in the British Museum, London, British Museum Press, 1922, p.147, no.97, image also accessible at www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1950-1111-0-18For paintings of a black cockerel in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum: accession number: 14.76.60.1.109, see www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/48886?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&what=Paintings&ao=on&ft=hokusai&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=2The seal was recorded in Nagata ed., ibid., p.233, no.65, where it is considered to have been used from Hokusai's Taito to Iitsu period (circa 1810-1820).