HIGASHIKAWA AKITOMO, EDO PERIOD (1804)
A Celestial and Terrestial Chart
Signed Higashikawa Akitomo hachijusai [Higashikawa Akitomo eighty years of age] and dated Bunka gannen kasshi fuyu [winter, first year of Bunka (1804)]
A two-panel screen, ink, colour and gilt on paper, some old damage and restoration
67 x 75in. (170.7 x 190.5cm.)
拍品专文
At the top left corner of the screen and beneath the title 'The seven celestial bodies' there is an inscription taken from a Chinese text describing the orbits of the sun, moon and five other planets.