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PARTY UNDER SPRING BLOSSOMS EDO PERIOD, CA. SECOND HALF KAN'EI (1624-44)--KANBUN (1661-73) ERAS

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Party under spring blossoms
Edo period, ca. second half Kan'ei (1624-44)--Kanbun (1661-73) eras
Six-panel screen; ink, color, gold and silver leaf on paper
57.3/8 x 134in. (145.3 x 331cm.)

Lot Essay

published:

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 9.

The center of attention is a wealthy townsman with bulging belly who looks rather like Hotei, one of the seven gods of good fortune.