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Lot 58. ONO NO TOFU AND THE FROG

Lot 58. ONO NO TOFU AND THE FROG

Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago

KITAO SHIGEMASA (B. 1739, d. 1819

The noble stands under an umbrella in a shower, on the bank of a narrow stream, watching a frog that tried a hundred times before it at last succeeded in catching a worm on a willow branch that hung over the water. Mizu-e in beni, blue, and pearl gray.

Hoso-e. Signed: Kitao Shigemasa ga. About 1764.

Purchaser: Charles H. Chandler
Price: $32.50

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