SIGNED HIDENAO, LATE MEIJI/TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY)

This artist is unrecorded, but for a similar example of an okimono representing a bird on a branch, dated 1911, see Joe Earle, Splendors of Meiji: Treasures of Imperial Japan, Masterpieces from the Khalili
Collection (St. Petersburg, Florida, 1999), cat. no. 318