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Two makemono sections painted in sumi, gofun, colour and gilt on paper depicting bijin at leisure on a terrace, officials below in the garden before a cart -- each 10¼in. x 8½in. (26cms x 21.5cms); a bookplate with a portrait of the actor Nakamura Utaemon as Utashichi -- 9½in. x 6in. (24cms x 15.2cms); and six Japanese sketches painted in sumi on paper depicting tigers among foaming waves, a cormorant fisherman on a rocky riverbank, studies of fish, bijin bathing and a group of geese and ducks below pine -- 4in. x 10¼in. (10.2cms x 26cms) max, mounted. (9)