Yokoo Hogetsu (1899-1990)

Nihonbashi

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Yokoo Hogetsu (1899-1990)
Nihonbashi
Signed and sealed Hogetsu
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
44½ x 13¾in. (113 x 35cm.)
Wood box signed, sealed and titled by the artist

Lot Essay

Hogetsu was born in Hakata City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He studied Shijo- school painting first under Nishimura Sobun. In 1917 he moved to Tokyo to study beauty painting under Ikeda Terukata (1883-1921), a pupil of Kaburagi Kiyokata (1878-1972). Hogetsu participated in Teiten, Nitten and Shin-Nitten exhibitions.

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