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Gao Shucheng 高樹程
(second half 18th century)

“Red Blossoming Plum” 红开花李圖

Fan painting, ink and color on paper
15.4 x 49.2 cm. (6 x 19 3/8 in.)

Inscription on painting:
“This was painted by my friend Master Gao Mai’an. At Master Yao’s Yulinglong Mountain Cottage I once saw a large scroll of ‘Red Blossoming Plums’ by Old Shi. Wanting in fragrance, the several dots and thin shadows were not the equal of this work, which captures their conception. Recorded by Tiesheng (Xi Gang, 1746-1803).”

Seal:
Tiesheng

Anonymous 無款日本 <br>(15th-16th century)<br>
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Anonymous 無款日本
(15th-16th century)

“Portrait of Fujiwara Kamatari”
藤原鎌像
Tōnomine Mandala
多武峯曼荼羅

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
81.0 x 37.0 cm. (31 7/8 x 14 1/2 in.)

Inscription on the interior of box lid, written in 1807 by Mutekiro Seimei: “In the winter of the fourth year of the Bunka era, the year of teibō when a priest’s robe was bestowed on me. Seimei.”

Recent provenance:
Japan 日本来源

Kiyohara Yukinobu 清原雪信 <br>(1643-1682)<br>
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Kiyohara Yukinobu 清原雪信
(1643-1682)

“Court Lady Ono no Komachi”
官女小野 小町圖

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
65.5 x 25.5 cm. (25 5/8 x 10 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted by the female specialist Yukinobu.”

Artist’s seals:
Kiyohara Onna (“Woman of the Kiyohara Family”); Kiyonobu watan

Colophon by Shinkai (1613-1678):
“I have been lonely and miss you, like a floating plant without root is led by the water, feeling melancholy I want to come and see you. Otokoyama Biku Shinkai (Priest Shinkai at Otokoyama).”

Published:
Itabashi Museum: Edo no Keishu Gaka (“Women Painters of Edo”), Tokyo, 1991, pl. 45.

Recent provenance:
Japan 日本来源

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豐国 <br>(1769-1825)<br>
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Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豐国
(1769-1825)

“Beauty in Moonlight”
月光美人圖

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
92.8 x 31.8 cm. (36 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted by Utagawa Toyokuni.”

Artist’s seals:
Ichiyosai; Toyokuni

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