Lot 366: Suzuki Shonen (1849-1918)

Autumn grasses and flowers; Reverse of each screen with Silhouettes of Mountains in gold leaf
Each signed Shonen Senshi; right screen sealed Shonen no in, left screen sealed Suzuki Senken
Ink, color and gold wash on paper
Pair of small eight-panel screens; 15 1/2 x 141in. (35 x 358cm.) each
Painted 1890s (2)

The flowers painted on the right screen are foxtail (enokorokusa), joint weed (tade), yellow chrysanthemum (kiku), the perennial ominaeshi, dayflower (tsuyukusa), kuzu vine and mosquito-net hang-weed (kayatsurikusa). The flowers painted on the left screen are blue chrysanthemum, pink (nadeshiko), bush clover (hagi), rose (fuyo) and bellflower (rindo).

For other paintings see Morioka Michiyo, Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions, Nihonga from the Griffith and Patricia Way Collection, exh. cat. (Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1999), pp. 106-11.