Property From a Private West Coast Collection

A lacquered-wood signal fan (gunbai)
Edo period (17th-18th century)
A red-lacquered wood gunbai with twenty-eight-constellation design, with gilt-metal fittings engraved with clematis on a nanako ground, with stylized stellar constellations in gold makie, and inscribed in gold lacquer
24in. (60.9cm.) long

Provenance
Wakisaka Awaji no kami
Tokodo Collection

Literature
Hankyu Department Store, ed., Hankyu hyakkaten sogyo rokujusshunen kinen: Kobijutsugai itsueiten (60th anniversary of opening of Hankyu Department Store: Antique shop festival) (Osaka: Hankyu Department Store, 1989), p. 80.

Exhibited
Hankyu Department Store, Osaka, "Hankyu hyakkaten sogyo rokujusshunen kinen: Kobijutsugai itsueiten" (60th anniversary of opening of Hankyu Department Store: Antique shops festival), 1989.3.24--29