Squirrel on a Fruiting Branch

Details

SHIKIBU TERUTADA (MID-16TH CENTURY)
Squirrel on a Fruiting Branch
Sealed Ryoan
Fan painting mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and gold wash on paper
19 ½ in. (49.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Yabumoto Soshiro (1914-1987), Tokyo

Literature

Leighton R. Longhi, Forty-five Years in Asian Art (New York: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019), plate 60

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Lot Essay

This fan originally was among a group of sixty mounted on a pair of six-panel screens that was published in Kokka 1084 (1985), an issue devoted to Shikibu Terutada. Leighton Longhi owned about fifteen of the fans removed from the original screens.

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