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This is the right hand panel of a diptych depicting the princess Kushinada seated on a rock clasping a sutra scroll in her hands. Before her is a table supporting further scrolls, while two others have fallen to one side. A large silver wave cresting at the left, with the claw of the eight-headed dragon emmerging from behind it. Poems by Shoyotei Seiki, Chonintei Motoyori and Shakuyakutei.
The complete diptych is in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, accession no. 89.28.778, go to:
https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/9f7d74c2-2e48-4ee0-afd6-4b7dc9f9e026
The left sheet is illustrated in Roger Keyes, The Art of Surimono: Privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, (London, 1985) pg. 240, pl. 210.
The complete diptych is in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, accession no. 89.28.778, go to:
https://collection.cmoa.org/objects/9f7d74c2-2e48-4ee0-afd6-4b7dc9f9e026
The left sheet is illustrated in Roger Keyes, The Art of Surimono: Privately published Japanese woodblock prints and books in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, (London, 1985) pg. 240, pl. 210.
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Estimate: GBP 1,500 - 2,000
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Lot 78
Sale 18945
The Princess Kushinada
AOIGAOKA KEISAI (ACTIVE 1820s-1830s)
Estimate: GBP 1,500 - 2,000
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