Charles H. Chandler
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Lot 24. SAIGYO HOSHI CONTEMPLATING FUJI
Image is possibly an example of this print from the Art Institute of Chicago NISHIMURA SHIGENAGA (B. 1697, d. 1756) Saigyo was a Fujiwara noble of the twelfth century whose opposition to Yoritomo caused him to renounce all his dignities and become a travelling Buddhist priest. Hoso-e. Hand colored urushi-e. Signed: Nishimura Shigenaga. Publisher: Maru-ya.…
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Lot 37. KAYOI KOMACHI
Image is an example from the Art Institute of Chicago SUZUKI HARUNOBU (B. about 1730, d. 1770) A young woman, a modern representative of Ono No Komachi, standing on the veranda of a house. Ode above and a small picture of the real Komachi. Mizu-e or “water print.” Hoso-e. Signed: Harunobu ga. Much faded. About…
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Lot 43. SAIGYO HOSHI PRAYING TO A BIJIN FUGEN
Image is an example from the Honolulu Museum of Art SUZUKI HARUNOBU (B. about 1730, d. 1770) This subject is an Ukiyo-e pleasantry, a Japanese oiran being substituted for the Dhyani Bodhisattva Samantabhadra, known in Japan as Fugen. She appears to the priest in a vision, seated on a white elephant. Chuban. Signed: Harunobu ga.…
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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…
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Lot 67. WASHING HER HANDS
TORII KIYONAGA (B. 1712, d. 1813) A girl dipping water from a chozu-bashi, while a young man stands by her side. Narrow panel. Signed: Kiyonaga ga. Publisher: Eijudo. Yoshiwara Views.” Not signed. About 1778. Purchaser: Charles H. Chandler Price: $7.50 |
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Lot 71. A MAID SERVANT HOLDING A LANTERN
TORII KIYONAGA (B. 1712, d. 1813) She turns her head toward two young women standing on a veranda behind her. Chuban. Series: Hai Furyu Taro. Signed: Kiyonaga ga. About 1781 Fine impression in beautiful condition. Purchaser: Charles H. Chandler Price: $75.00 |
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Lot 101. SCENE FROM A DRAMA
Image is an example from the Honolulu Museum of Art KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Ichikawa Monnosuke as Taro, the spy. Arashi Tatsuzo as Yuri no Hachiro. Hoso-e. Signed: Shunro ga. Purchaser: Charles H. Chandler Price: $5.00 |
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Lot 112. ODE BY TENCHI TENNO
Image is an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Scene, a rice field in autumn; farmers harvesting crop. My lowly hut is thatched with straw / From fields where rice-sheaves frequent stand, / Now autumn’s harvest’s well-nigh o’er, / Collected by my toiling hand: / Through tattered roof…
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Lot 119. ODE BY ONO NO KOMACHI
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Peasants outside a farm house engaged in the ordinary drudgery of life. Thy love hath passed away from me / Left desolate, forlorn — / In winter rains how wearily / The summer past I mourn! HYAKUNIN ISSHU…
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Lot 121. ODE BY SOJO HENJO
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (B. 1760, d. 1849) Two noble ladies in a sacred dance in a Shinto ceremony at Court. In fitful path across the sky, / By various winds of heaven forced, / Cloud-borne Otome glideth by — / Now hath the breeze its…
