Lot Essay
For a book illustrating and describing recipes from the Yaozen restaurant, owned by the Kuriyama family, former owners of this painting, see lot 590.
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Poems and papier-mâché tiger and miniature rice paddy with scarecrow
Details
Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828) Sakai Oho (1808-1841)
Poems and papier-mâché tiger and miniature rice paddy with scarecrow
Signed Hoitsu hitsu and sealed Daisen; signed Oho hitsu and sealed Hansei; each poem signed and sealed by a poet
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
36 x 10 3/8in. (91.3 x 26.4cm.)
Poems and papier-mâché tiger and miniature rice paddy with scarecrow
Signed Hoitsu hitsu and sealed Daisen; signed Oho hitsu and sealed Hansei; each poem signed and sealed by a poet
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
36 x 10 3/8in. (91.3 x 26.4cm.)
Provenance
Kuriyama Zenshiro, owner of Yaozen restaurant, Tokyo, sold at auction Yaozen Tsukiji, Tokyo, 6 October 1930.
Mathias Komor, New York, February 1973.
Mathias Komor, New York, February 1973.
Exhibited
Sakai Hoitsu meiga tenrankai (Exhibition of important paintings by Sakai Hoitsu), Kyoto National Museum, 15 April--8 June 1930, no. 55.