Lot 2040: Takashima Chiharu (1777-1859)

Nenchu gyoji (Annual Events) A double-sided twelve-leaf album, with twenty-four shikishi paintings in ink, color and gold flecks on silk applied to gold-flecked paper, gilt brocade fabric covers with floral-etched metal corner pieces; of various subjects accompanied by a kyoka poem signed Magao, sealed Chiharu With a fitted black lacquered box with the legend miyabita (elegant/refined) 8 5/8 x 8in (22 x 20.3cm) paintings 9 7/8 x 8 7/8in (25.2 x 22.8cm) album overall

22 x 20.3cm

Shikatsube no Magao (Koikawa Sakimachi, 1753 - 1829) was a famous kyoka poet of the mid/late Edo period.