SCREENS THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN AMBASSADOR
A FOUR-PANEL SCREEN painted in sumi, colour and gofun on gold paper with a court lady walking across a wooden bridge carrying a tray with maple leaves, autumn grasses and a part of a mansion seen among stylised cloud, unsigned, brocade mount, engraved kanagu

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A FOUR-PANEL SCREEN painted in sumi, colour and gofun on gold paper with a court lady walking across a wooden bridge carrying a tray with maple leaves, autumn grasses and a part of a mansion seen among stylised cloud, unsigned, brocade mount, engraved kanagu
each panel 113 x 48.3cm.

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It is suggested that this screen is a part of an eight-panel screen painted by Kano Yusei Kuninobu (1787-1840), the second son of Kano Tamboku Morikuni, head of the sixth generation of the Kano Kajibashi line. Kuninobu was adopted later by the Nakabashi branch of the Kano family and became head of the fourteenth generation.

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