Kitao Shigemasa
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Lot 57. THE WATER WHEEL AT YODO CASTER
KITAO SHIGEMASA (B. 1739, d. 1819 A boat with several passengers sailing on the Yodo river by a walled bank where the current of the stream is turning a great undershot water-wheel. Mizu-e or “waterprint” in beni, buff, blue, and pearl gray. Hoso-e. Signed: Kitao Shigemasa ga. About 1764. Purchaser: Joseph L. Lilienthal Price: $15.00…
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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 59. A WAITRESS OF THE HAYASHI-YA TEA-HOUSE
KITAO SHIGEMASA (B. 1739, d. 1819 Hoso-e. Signed: Kitao Shigemasa ga. About 1769. Purchaser: Henry L. Phillips Price: $27.50 |
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Lot 60. WOMEN BOILING COCOONS AND DRYING FLOSS SILK
Image is an example from the Museum of Fine Arts Boston KITAO SHIGEMASA (B. 1739, d. 1819 One of the Silk Culture series, “Kaiko Yashinai Gusa,” by Shigemasa and Shunsho. Chuban. Signed: Kitao Shigemasa ga. Purchaser: Frances Osborne Kellogg Price: $10.00 |
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Lot 61. THE SEVEN FORTUNE GODS SAILING IN THE TREASURE SHIP
Image is an example from the Library of Congress KITAO SHIGEMASA (B. 1739, d. 1819 Yoko-e. Signed: Kitao Shigemasa ga. Purchaser: N. M. Wright (?) Price: $120.00 |
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Lot 62. ISHIYAMA AKI NO TSUKI
Image is an example from the British Museum KITAO SHIGEMASA (B. 1739, d. 1819 Autumn Moon at Ishiyama. Young boys playing by moonlight. One of the series, Yatsushi Hakkei, Eight Transformed Views. Chuban. Signed: Kitao Shigemasa ga. Purchaser: Kano Oshima Price: $7.50 |
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Lot 63. KATADA RAKUGAN
KITAO SHIGEMASA (B. 1739, d. 1819 Geese flying down at Katada. Young boys at play in a room, the geese represented by the bridges for the strings of a koto which a boy standing on a kotatsu is throwing down. Same series as the preceding. Not signed. Purchaser: Kano Oshima Price: $7.50 |
