MASAO IDO (1945-2016)

MASAO IDO (1945-2016)
KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)
UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797–1858)
GIHACHIRO OKUYAMA (1907-81)
EDO AND LATER, 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

Four Japanese woodblock prints, the first by Masao Ido entitled Rakushisha (the House of Falling Persimmons), titled, dated '97, signed and numbered 177/200 in pencil underneath; another by Kawase Hasui of the Fudō Temple in Meguro, signed Hasui, published by Watanabe Shozaburo c.1931; the third an ōtanzaku by Utagawa Hiroshige titled 'Golden Pheasant and Pine Shoots in Snow', signed Hiroshige hitsu and with two red seal marks; the last by Gihachiro Okuyama (1907-81) and entitled 'Rice Planting'; 44.7cm x 33.3cm max. (4)

FOUR JAPANESE PRINTS

Provenance: from the collection of Dr Richard Brown, and thence by descent.

Dr. Richard F. Brown (1898-1963) was a Canadian Anglican missionary doctor who served in China, most notably at St. Paul's Hospital in Henan, starting around 1930. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he became a field doctor, providing urgent medical aid near the front lines and famously collaborating with fellow Canadian Dr. Norman Bethune in 1938 to treat wounded soldiers.