Lot 66: Kaiho Yusho (1533-1615)

Birds and flowers, insects, landscapes, horses, Daoist sages and interiors
Each fan or square painting (shikishi) sealed Kaiho and Yusho
Pair of six-panel screens mounted with 25 fan and square paintings (shikishi); ink on paper and ink, color and gold leaf on paper
60 3/8 x 140 1/8in. (153.5 x 355.6cm.) each (2)

The twenty-three fan and square ink paintings on these screens include a variety of typical Chinese subjects including a heron and willow tree, pigeon on pine branch, pair of cranes, landscapes and Daoist sages. Here Yusho places them uniquely on a Yamato-e style painting of a long corridor linking two unseen buildings of a large mansion. Pine trees grow on both sides of the corridor that is partially screened from our view by bamboo blinds.