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Lot 8: Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598)

Est: $45,000 USD - $50,000 USD
Christie'sNew York, NY, USOctober 23, 2009

Item Overview

Description

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598)
Letter to Matsura Shigemasa
Signed and dated Tensho juninen juichigatsu jushichinichi (seventeenth day, eleventh month, 1584) Hideyoshi and with kao (cursive monogram)
Letter mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper
10¼ x 7 7/8in. (26 x 20cm.)

Artist or Maker

Literature

Tokyo teikoku daigaku shiryo hensanjo, ed., Hotaiko shinsekishu jo (Genuine calligraphy of Lord Toyotomi, vol. 1) (Tokyo: Teikoku daigaku shiryo hensanjo, 1938), pl. 64.

Provenance

Kuwabara Yojiro, Shimane

Notes

Kuwagata Yojiro was a collector and leading expert on Japanese sword fittings in the first half of the twentieth century. The letter asks Matsura to send 300 koku of rice.

Auction Details

Arts of the Samurai

by
Christie's
October 23, 2009, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US