ATTRIBUTED TO SUMIYOSHI GUKEI (1631-1705)

ATTRIBUTED TO SUMIYOSHI GUKEI (1631-1705)

EDO PERIOD, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

A set of sixteen Japanese paintings, ink and colour on paper with gold flakes, including eight leaves of calligraphy in chirashi-gaki (scattered writing) style with borders of stylised dragons, and eight paintings comprising: a view of pavilions in mountainous river landscapes; another painting depicting a flock of geese in flight above marshes; a third with two travellers on a rocky outcrop, with the moon above; sailing boats on a lake; a village in a rain storm; a multi-storey pagoda nestled amongst trees; fishermen with nets, and many figures in a village, each mounted on board separately, together with two silk covers, each picture approx. 20.4cm x 18.5cm. (18)

See the Metropolitan Museum, New York, access. no.2015.300.24 for an album depicting the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals by Sumiyoshi Gukei, with the same decorative border of dragons used for the leaves of calligraphy in this lot.