Lot 249: Five scroll paintings including one by Hanabusa Itcho (1652-1724) The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art

Late 17th to 19th century Kakejiku, comprising one by Hanabusa Itcho, in ink and slight colour on silk, depicting a scarecrow propped up on bamboo stalks beneath a blossoming cherry, signed Hanabusa Itcho sho with seal; the second in ink and slight colour on silk, depicting a scholar seated in deep slumber at the foot of a two-fold screen decorated with a mountainous landscape, with a signed and sealed seven-line inscription above, signed Nangaku with two seals, with wood storage box bearing an inscription inside the lid; the third, in ink on paper, depicting the great poet, To Enmei (in Chinese, Tao Yuanming,365-427), holding a paper, with a full transcription of his poetry, titled Kikyorai no ji, signed with three seals; the fourth, in ink, colour and gold on paper, possibly depicting Soto Ori-hime gazing at a spider hanging from its web on the veranda, signed Miwa hitsu with seal; the last by Ko Suikoku, in ink and colour on paper, depicting a pilgrim looking up at a signboard on a pole behind a bamboo fence, signed Ko Suikoku with seal. The smallest 73cm x 26cm (28¾in x 10¼in), the largest 103cm x 36cm (40½in x 14 3/16in). (6).

73cm x 26cm

: the first from the Michael Tomkinson collection, no.166.

掛軸　五幅　(案山子図、学者図、陶淵明図、衣通姫図、巡礼者図）　17世紀後期-19世紀