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JAPAN SOCIETY, INC., N.Y.
SAKAKIBARA BUNSUI (d.1890)*
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SAKAKIBARA BUNSUI (d.1890)*
The Thirty-six Poetic Geniuses (Sanjurokkasen) and their poems
Pair of six-panel screens; thirty-six sheets ink and color on silk paired with thirty-six sheets of calligraphy, ink on silk, applied to silver leaf, mounted on brocade
Signed Bunsui sai Minamoto no Ason Nagatoshi at the age of eighty-six, sealed Bunsui ga in and cyclically dated Tsuchinoe tori (1849)
Portraits 7 5/8 x 6 7/8in. (19.5 x 17.6cm.) each
The Thirty-six Poetic Geniuses (Sanjurokkasen) and their poems
Pair of six-panel screens; thirty-six sheets ink and color on silk paired with thirty-six sheets of calligraphy, ink on silk, applied to silver leaf, mounted on brocade
Signed Bunsui sai Minamoto no Ason Nagatoshi at the age of eighty-six, sealed Bunsui ga in and cyclically dated Tsuchinoe tori (1849)
Portraits 7 5/8 x 6 7/8in. (19.5 x 17.6cm.) each