A fan signed Kunihisa, the leaf painted with a lady flying a kite, two others playing shuttlecock and battledore, and children playing with a top and walking on stilts, the verso with cranes, with mount Fuji beyond, with bamboo sticks and one ivory guardstick carved with a monkey climbing bamboo, and set with mother of pearl moon and tortoiseshell clouds, the other carved with a quail and wisteria and set with a Shibayama work caterpillar and a butterfly, the ogime set with a fly - 11in. (30cm.), Japanese, late 19th century

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A fan signed Kunihisa, the leaf painted with a lady flying a kite, two others playing shuttlecock and battledore, and children playing with a top and walking on stilts, the verso with cranes, with mount Fuji beyond, with bamboo sticks and one ivory guardstick carved with a monkey climbing bamboo, and set with mother of pearl moon and tortoiseshell clouds, the other carved with a quail and wisteria and set with a Shibayama work caterpillar and a butterfly, the ogime set with a fly - 11in. (30cm.), Japanese, late 19th century
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Kunihisa was active 1832-1891 and was a pupil of Kunisade, one of the main Japanese print designers

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