A JAPANESE ALBUM OF KANO SCHOOL PAINTINGS EDO PERIOD OR LATER

A JAPANESE ALBUM OF KANO SCHOOL PAINTINGS

EDO PERIOD OR LATER, 19TH CENTURY

Including twenty-two ink and colour paintings on silk, variously depicting birds, dragonflies, bats, bees, grasshoppers and other insects amongst flowers, each mounted on gold leaf-covered board, signed Tansetsu no zu with a Tansetsu red seal mark underneath, the album with a fabric cover decorated with kotobuki characters, 36cm x 30cm.

See Harvard Art Museum acc. n. 1943.56.21.19 for another comparable album of paintings depicting birds, insects and flowers by Kano Tansetsu.