Lot 2: Attributed to Kano Utanosuke (d. ca.1575)

Hawk on pine branch Sealed Moin and...nobu Hanging scroll; ink on paper 33 1/8 x 16 5/8in. (84 x 42.2cm.) NOTES Some scholars speculate that Utanosuke is also Kano Yukinobu, the younger brother of Kano Motonobu (1476-1559) but there is no definitive evidence to date. What is clear is that his style is strongly influenced by the early-16th century Kano school, and especially Motonobu. Other paintings attributed to Utanosuke with the same seals as the hanging scroll here are Civet, birds and flowers, a pair of six-panel screens, the right screen now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the left in the Suntory Museum, Tokyo; and Three Masters of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism Tasting Vinegar, a hanging scroll in the Tokyo National Museum.