Lot 40: ATTRIBUTED TO NISHIMURA SHIGENAGA (1697?-1756), C.1720'S

depicting as follows: Haru: tane hitashi (Spring: soaking seeds); of a farmer handing bales of seeds to a man who stands in a running stream, three bales of seeds on the bank, Natsu: taue (Summer: rice planting), of farmers planting young rice plants in a stream, Aki: inekari (Autumn: rice harvesting) of farmers busy cutting and carrying the rice to women who thrash out the grain and tie up the sheaves, Fuyu: komeosame (paying tax in the form of rice), of farmers at work tying up and carrying off bales of rice, no publisher's mark, each unsigned

Condition Note: Very good impression and condition

hosoban urushi-e, each sheet approx., 32.1 by 15.1cm., 12 5/8 by 5 15/16 in.

see AIC, vol.1, p.94, nos 12,13 & 14 for the titled and earlier design by Torii Kiyomasu II

QUANTITY: 4

Original handwritten notes on mount, acheté à Murakami, 23-9-09