SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891)

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SHIBATA ZESHIN (1807-1891)

Waterfall

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on silk, 113.7 x 49.8cm., signed Zeshin sha and sealed Zeshin, in fitted box inscribed by Zeshin's pupil Ayaoka Yushin and signed and sealed by him

Provenance

Yoshimura Jimbei

Property of a gentleman, sold in these rooms December 11, 1985, lot 19

Exhibited

Shioda Makoto, etal, Zeshin-o gakan (Tokyo 1908)

Mitsukoshi, Zeshin (New York 1980), no. 2

Lot Essay

Zeshin repeated this subject on several occasions. A similar example in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum is illustrated in Goke Tadaomi, Shibata Zeshin ten (Tokyo: Itabashi Kuritsu Museum, 1980), fig.6. Another is shown in Goke, Shibata Zeshin meihin-shu (Tokyo: Gakken, 1981), fig.63.