Lot 27*
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) Meiji Period
5 November 2009, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£7,000 - £10,000
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Meiji Period
Kakejiku, in ink, urushi and colour on silk, depicting possibly Chikamatsu Monzaemon in the foreground, wearing a sword and carrying a gourd filled with sake over his shoulder suspended from a cherry branch, behind him five wakashu Kabuki actors enacting different roles, signed Seisei Kyosai with two seals Nyoku Kyosai and tsubo seal Kyosai; with wood storage box. 117cm x 40½cm (46in x 16in). (2).
Kakejiku, in ink, urushi and colour on silk, depicting possibly Chikamatsu Monzaemon in the foreground, wearing a sword and carrying a gourd filled with sake over his shoulder suspended from a cherry branch, behind him five wakashu Kabuki actors enacting different roles, signed Seisei Kyosai with two seals Nyoku Kyosai and tsubo seal Kyosai; with wood storage box. 117cm x 40½cm (46in x 16in). (2).
Footnotes
踊図 河鍋暁斎 一幅 絹本着色 明治時代
Compare with two similarly executed paintings depicting okuni kabuki in a fuzoku choju gafu in a Japanese private collection, illustrated in the Exhibition Catalogue by the Tobu Museum, Kawanabe Kyosai, Kyosui Ten, p.78, pl.55, nos.1 and 2.