FUJIWARA UJITSUNE (MINRYUSAI, ACT. 19TH CENTURY)

FUJIWARA UJITSUNE (MINRYUSAI, ACT. 19TH CENTURY)
KAKU SHIGI AND CHILDREN
EDO/MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY

A Japanese kakejiku (hanging scroll painting), ink and colour on silk, depicting the famous Chinese Tang dynasty general Kaku Shigi or Guo Ziyi (697-781) as an elderly man with children, signed Fujiwara Ujitsune ga and sealed Fujiwara, 108cm x 36.5cm; together with a scroll painting of Kan'u and Chohi (Guan Yu and Zhang Fei), with a seal reading Rinsen juin (Auspicious seal of Rinsen), 86cm x 42cm. (2)

Provenance: from the Estate of a Collector, Heath House, Hampshire, and thence by descent. By repute, acquired in Asia at the turn of the 19th century.