Lot 135: Kano Natsuo (1828-1898) Fine Japanese Art

1870 Kakejiku, ink and slight colour on paper, depicting pine saplings, bamboo and matsutake mushrooms, below a waka poem, the painting with two seals, one reading Natsuo, the poem signed Jinen hachiju-o Ichijo (Ichijo, aged 80) with a seal Goto; with fitted wooden tomobako storage box inscribed outside Komatsu matsutake no zu (Painting of pine saplings and matsutake); inscribed inside Senko Natsuo shinseki Hokkyo Ichijo-o san Showa kanoe-ne shunjitsu Akio dai (A true work by my late father Natsuo with a poem by the venerable Hokkyo Ichijo, inscribed by Akio in the kanoe-ne year of Showa [1960]) with seal Akio. 97.4cm x 23.1cm (38 3/8in x 9 1/8in). (2).

97.4cm x 23.1cm

: Miyazaki Tomijiro Collection.