AN ALBUM CONTAINING TWENTY-TWO PAINTINGS

SEALED DOZAN, MID 19TH CENTURY

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AN ALBUM CONTAINING TWENTY-TWO PAINTINGS
Sealed Dozan, mid 19th Century
Painted in sumi and slight colour on paper, mostly of figures such as a Shinto priest with a torch, a fisherman, a Noh dancer, a Chinese scholar, a Heian courtier playing kick-ball, a man performing tea ceremony, Benkei seated with a naginata, Moso digging bamboo shoots in snow for his mother, a mask of oni, a sparrow, a bird catcher, an inebriated courtier, three men in a boat, two temple servants, and a man with an ox, (ten of them with water stains on left edge, most of them lightly pasted on to another at one edge and at top edge)
Twenty-one of them approx. 26 x 23, the last 15.3 x 19.2cm.

Lot Essay

Dozan seems to have been influenced strongly by the artists such as Onishi Chinnen (1792-1851) and Kawamura Kiho (1778-1852). The latter was the most capable pupil and an adopted son of Kawamura Bumpo. Illustrations in Kiho gafu, published in 1827 and in Chinnen's Azuma no teburi (1829) show great resemblance to the paintings in this album.

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