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  • Letter dated December 20
    Hanging scroll
    Item Number : 24013

    Tokugawa Mitsukuni

    Letter dated December 20

    Biography Tokugawa Mitsukuni(1628-1701) was the feudal load of Mito domain(present Ibaraki Prefecture) Known as a grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. The 2nd feudal load of Hitachi Mito Domain. Promoted Confucianism, built "Shokokan" for making the book of Great Japanese History. Invited Shu Shunsui and established the base of Mito Studies.
    Description
    • ink on paper with silk mounting
    • 32 x 46 cm(artwork), 115 x 55 cm(overall)
    • minor crease on paper and minor foxing on mounting
    • with wooden storage box

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  • Incense Container, Iga ware, Raccoon
    Incense Container
    Item Number : 22115

    Incense Container, Iga ware, Raccoon

    Biography
    Description
    • H6 W5 D5
    • with double wooden storage box

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  • Rabbits with Autumn Flowers/ Puppy and Birds in Snow
    Folding Screens
    Item Number : 22113

    Nagasawa Rosetsu

    Rabbits with Autumn Flowers/ Puppy and Birds in Snow

    Biography Nagasawa Rosetsu(1754-1799) was a painter born into Uesugi family of the feudal retainer in Yodo Domain, Yamashiro Province(present Kyoto Prefecture). Later became an adopted son of Nagasawa family. Studied painting under Maruyama Okyo(1733-1795) and well-known for one of the best ten disciples of Okyo but later expelled from the Maruama school by Okyo due to his freewheeling character.
    Description
    • a pair of six-fold screens
    • color/gold dust on paper
    • 155 × 348 cm(each artwork), 170 × 364 cm(each overall)

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  • Beauty
    Hanging scroll
    Item Number : 21132

    Nishimura Dachu

    Beauty

    Biography Nishimura Dachu(1896-unknown) was a painter born in Kyoto. Studied painting under Okamoto Taiko and Takeuchi Seiho.
    Description
    • color on silk with silk mounting
    • 125 × 35 cm(artwork), 198 × 48 cm(overall)
    • minor foxing/minor crease on silk and minor crease on mounting
    • with wooden storage box signed by the artist

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  • Haiku
    Hanging scroll
    Item Number : 20111

    Kawai Otokuni

    Haiku

    Biography Kawai Otokuni (c.1657～c.1726)
    Description
    • ink on paper (suminagashi/gold lined flowers) with silk mounting
    • dimensions: 31×5cm(artwork), 136 ×18cm(overall)　
    • minor crease and foxing on artwork and its mounted paper, and minor crease and bookworm holes on silk mounting.
    • with wooden storage box

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