Beauties and Manzai dancers (front); Thirty-six Immortal Poets and their poems (verso)

Details

Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752: front) and Tosa school (18th Century: verso)
Beauties and Manzai dancers (front); Thirty-six Immortal Poets and their poems (verso)
Each signed Yamatoe Miyagawa Choshun zu, sealed Choshun no in (front); each painting sealed (verso)
Six paintings mounted as a six-panel screen; ink, color and gold on silk (front); Twelve shikishi paintings of poets and thirty-six shikishi poems in calligraphy mounted as a six-panel screen; ink, color and gold on silk (painting) or ink, gold wash and gold leaf on paper (calligraphy) (verso)
30¾ x 13in. (78.1 x 33cm.) each (front);
6 7/8 x 6½ in. (17.5 x 16.5cm.) each (verso)

Provenance

Charles Stewart Smith, New York

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Lot Essay

Charles Stewart Smith (1832-1909) was a New Yorker in the dry goods business. He went to Japan on his honeymoon with his third wife in 1892 and purchased several thousand Japanese prints as well as Japanese ceramics and paintings from the British journalist and collector Captain Frank Brinkley (1841-1912). He gave the prints to the New York Public Library and the rest to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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