82 5444 Qi Baishi 1864 1957 
- Thin brown line in mid-upper margin (paperflaw?); silk borders w. a few spots and remnants of glue in upper corner.
82 5445 Sadahide 1807 1873 
82 5445 Sadahide 1807 1873 
82 5445 Sadahide 1807 1873 
- All tipped onto mount; all lvs. w. fold 2-3 cm. from right side; sl. browned and faded; w. a few closed wormholes.
82/5446 Sanshisuimei Scenic beauty 
82/5446 Sanshisuimei Scenic beauty 
82/5446 Sanshisuimei Scenic beauty 
82/5446 Sanshisuimei Scenic beauty 
82/5446 Sanshisuimei Scenic beauty 
82 5447 Scrolls Anonymous late 19th cent 
82 5447 Scrolls Anonymous late 19th cent 
82 5447 Scrolls Anonymous late 19th cent 
- Occasionally a trifle foxed, but otherwise fine.
= A comical scroll depicting a mob of (presumably) sumo wrestlers fighting Fukurokuju, or possibly Jurôjin, two of the Seven Lucky Gods. The two share similarities and are often conflated.
82 5448 Scrolls Anonymous late 19th/ early 20th cent 
- Seals sl. faded, thus difficult to read; navy blue paint seemingly sl. worn in some spots.
= Depicts the bodhisattva Kannon (also known as Avalokitesvera or Guanyin), seated beside a vase with a willow branch and gazing benevolently upon the world. Most of the outlines of the figure - done in gold paint on a blue background - are formed by lines of fine Chinese characters, most likely part of the Lotus Sutra often associated with Kannon. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
- Trifle/ sl. foxed, otherwise fine.
82 5450 Scrolls Anonymous 20th cent 
- Some creases; sl. dustsoiled.
82 5451 Scrolls Kanyô Kanamori 1882 1932 
- A fine pair of scrolls.
= Depicting the legendary fight between warrior monk Benkei on one scroll and Minamoto no Yoshitsune on the other.
- Occasionally (sl.) creased, otherwise fine.
= Depicts flowers, trees and animals. Titled on the outside of the box, inscribed inside: "A winter's day in 1911. 19 years of painting(?). [signed:] Kôgyô jidai" with seals.
- Partly nibbled by silverfish; w. (restored) horizontal creasing and cracking.
82 5454 Scrolls Mori Kôga 1790 1864 
- Painting slightly foxed, otherwise fine. Brocade sl. worn.
= Depicting the Shichifukujin, the Seven Lucky Gods, enjoying votive offerings, feeding Benzaiten sake and ogling her body. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
= Light brown (5x); white w. peony motif (4x); dark cream w. peony motif (5x); light cream w. peony motif (6x); pink w. birds motif (5x); blue and copper w. birds motif (7x). Interesting lot for i.a. restorers of Chinese and Japanese scrolls.
AND 3 rolls of unused sheets of Chinese (mulberry?) paper and num. 'Jiku' (end knobs).
82 5456 Scrolls Shunga Anonymous 19th cent 
82 5456 Scrolls Shunga Anonymous 19th cent 
82 5456 Scrolls Shunga Anonymous 19th cent 
- Thin Japanese w. (slight) wrinkles and a few tiny holes or tears; occas. trifle foxed. Top of scroll trifle/ sl. worn and waterdam. (unobtrusive).
= With partially read title-strip mounted on verso, mentioning Edo and the Tôkaidô. Shagan, Japanese Erotic Art. The Hidden World of Shunga, p.234-236: "While rapists are generally portrayed as Yakuza or thieves, easily recognizable by their black clothing and kerchiefs, or as highway bandits, sometimes stealing the woman's clothes, shunga shows all sorts of men as perpetrators, and occasionally gang rape. Importantly, most rapists are depicted as having physically unattractive attributes, such as an unusual amount of body hair, or unshaven or disfigured faces. [...] It should not be underestimated or overlooked that the men who commit these hideous crimes were shown as ugly or deformed, and having to resort to the use of force in order to have sex. No one looking at such images could conceivably see them as role models and the way the men are depicted is an expression of society's revulsion at these acts." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
82 5457 Scrolls Shunga Yoshitoshi 1839 1892 style of? 
82 5457 Scrolls Shunga Yoshitoshi 1839 1892 style of? 
82 5457 Scrolls Shunga Yoshitoshi 1839 1892 style of? 
- With folds/ creases, particularly between two prints; a (few) waterstain(s) not affecting image; occas. trifle foxed.
= With partly unread titlestrip mounted verso of scroll: "[?]fune" ([?]ship). Depicts a peculiar chain of events where three men go out on a boat, get into bad weather and are rescued by a group of women on an island. Consequently, they have vigorous intercourse to the point of overexhaustion, after which the men run away, back to their boat. Prints without signatures, but 7 of 10 prints w. four different seals used by Yoshitoshi.
82 5458 Shigeharu 1803 1853 
- Two pinholes and a sm. hole in the upper right corner, otherwise a very good copy.
82 5459 Shin'ichi Fujiwara act 1894 1905 
= Chaïkin 41 (ill. on p.149).
AND 1 other similar triptych showing a scene from the battle at the crossing of the Yalu at Jiuliancheng by FUKUSHIMA TOSHIMITSU, 1894.
82 5460 Shôun 1870 1965 
82 5460 Shôun 1870 1965 
82 5460 Shôun 1870 1965 
82 5460 Shôun 1870 1965 
- Sl. browned; elongated narrow stain. = From the series of Scenes of the Four Seasons.
AND 3 others, i.a. by KOGYO TERASAKI.
82 5461 Shunga Anonymous 19th cent ? 
82 5461 Shunga Anonymous 19th cent ? 
82 5461 Shunga Anonymous 19th cent ? 
- All creased and w. some sl. flaking of paint; doubled.
= Probably three separated leaves from a larger shunga scroll. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
82 5462 Shunga Anonymous 19th cent 
82 5462 Shunga Anonymous 19th cent 
- All prints (sl.) wormholed.
82 5463 Shunga Eiri act 1790 1800 
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.