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Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)
Lot 148

Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)

Jinbutsu zoga (Collection of figure sketches)

Closed18 March 2008

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Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841)
Jinbutsu zoga (Collection of figure sketches)
Signed, dated and inscribed Mizunoe-tatsu aki shichigatsu (seventh month, autumn, 1832) tame Kogyoku joshi sha Zenraku'o (painted by Zenraku'o [Kazan] for Kogyoku), sealed Moko and Kazan
Handscroll; ink and slight color on paper
11½ x 344¼in. (29.2 x 874.2cm.)

Specialist note

This handscroll includes sketches of Du Fu's "Eight poets Drinking," Kanzan and Jittoku, Daruma and Shoki. Kazan painted the scroll for the woman painter Saito Kogyoku (1814-1870), who had been his pupil since the age of ten.