Live Auction 9555Asobi: Ingenious Creativity Japanese Works of Art from Antiquity to Contemporary And Ceramics from the Collection of Bernard Leach
Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889)
Lot 57

Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889)

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 5,000

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Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889)
Sanja no keshiki [View of the Three Holy Shrines]
Hanging scroll, ink and colour on silk, painted 1887, signed Seisei
Kyosai ga and with a crow seal
90 x 30cm. (excluding mount)

Josiah Conder, no.28
Purchased at auction, V. Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, 1942, and
thence by descent to the present owner

Specialist note

In this painting Kyosai is subtly alluding to three shrines - the deer are traditionally associated with the Kasuga Shrine at Nara, the doves symbolise the Hachiman Otokoyama Shrine, whilst the sun alludes to the Ise Shrine.