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  • Bull
    Hanging scroll
    Item Number : 23019

    Nagata Koi

    Bull

    Biography Nagata Koi(1900-1997) was a haiku poet born in Hyogo prefecture. Entered in Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited in 1917 and started making haiku in 1920. Studied haiku under Iwaki Tsutsuji. Excelled at calligraphy and painting. Associated with Munakata Shiko, Kawai Kanjiro and Suda Kokuta.
    Description
    • color on paper with paper mounting
    • 43 x 64 cm(artwork), 136 x 77 cm(overall)
    • minor foxing on paper
    • with wooden storage box signed by the artist(1969)

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  • Frogs
    old copper
    Item Number : 22100

    Frogs

    Biography
    Description
    • old copper
    • large h 2 w 4.3 d 4.3 (cm)
    • small h 2.5 w 5 d 4.5 (cm)

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  • Peonies
    Hanging scroll
    Item Number : 22064

    Maruyama Okyo

    Peonies

    Biography Maruyama Okyo(1733-1795) was a painter born in Tanba(present Kyoto Prefecture). Studied painting under Washida Yutei in Kyoto. Also studied Chinese and Western paintings. Founder of the Maruyama school. Excelled at painting animals and plants. His noted pupils include Goshun, Nagasawa Rosetsu, Mori Tetsuzan, Gessen and Mori Sosen.
    Description
    • color on silk with silk mounting
    • 116 × 50 cm(artwork), 209 × 65 cm(overall)
    • minor foxing/minor traces of bookworms on silk
    • with wooden storage box

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  • Calligraphy
    Hanging scroll
    Item Number : 21115

    Masuda Dono

    Calligraphy

    Biography Masuda Dono(1848-1938) was a businessman and tea master born in Niigata Prefecture. Born into the family of shogunate retainer in Sado. Established the former organization of Mitsui Bussan with Inoue Kaoru. Studied tea ceremony under Kawakami Sojun of Fuhakuryu school.
    Description
    • ink on paper with silk mounting
    • 111 × 29 cm(artwork), 200 × 43 cm(overall)
    • with wooden storage box

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  • Tray
    Tray
    Item Number : 21092

    Hosokawa Rinkoku

    Tray

    Biography Hosokawa Rinkoku(1780-1843) was a seal carver and a Chinese-style poet, born in Sanuki. Learned seal carving under Abe Ryozan. Excelled at poetry and painting, especially landscape and ink bamboo paintings. A master of seal carving.
    Description
    • zelkova tree (the rim:vermillion-lacquered on paulownia)
    • 60 × 65 x 4 cm
    • engraved the artist's signature at the right corner

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