TWO JAPANESE TOSA SCHOOL PAINTINGS

TWO JAPANESE TOSA SCHOOL PAINTINGS

MUROMACHI PERIOD OR LATER, 16TH CENTURY OR LATER

Possibly fragments from handscroll paintings, makimono, both compositions based on diagonal lines and depicting figures in Heian-style garments engaged in daily life, one with a man in a traditional cart, hanaguruma, the other with figures on a balcony overlooking a pond, one writing a letter, both in chinoiserie lacquered frames and glazed, mounted with labels inscribed 'subject: Japanese court life. By Tosa School. Date - middle of Ashikaga Period 1570', both 22cm x 26cm. (2)