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Lot 81*
Woman playing a koto After Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752), Edo period
21 March 2018, 11:00 GMT
EdinburghSold for £275 inc. premium
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Woman playing a koto
After Miyagawa Choshun (1682-1752), Edo period
A vertical hanging scroll in ink, colours and gold on silk in silk mounts, the black-lacquer jikusaki (scroll ends) with gold-lacquer decoration of butterflies and grasses, depicting a woman dressed in a richly embroidered kimono kneeling and playing a koto, with signature Yamato eshi Miyagawa Choshun zu (painted by the Japanese artist Miyagawa Choshun) and seal Choshun.
Image 32.5cm x 38.9cm, overall: 126cm x 65cm (2).
A vertical hanging scroll in ink, colours and gold on silk in silk mounts, the black-lacquer jikusaki (scroll ends) with gold-lacquer decoration of butterflies and grasses, depicting a woman dressed in a richly embroidered kimono kneeling and playing a koto, with signature Yamato eshi Miyagawa Choshun zu (painted by the Japanese artist Miyagawa Choshun) and seal Choshun.
Image 32.5cm x 38.9cm, overall: 126cm x 65cm (2).
Footnotes
The storage box inscribed outside Shinkei tankin no zu Miyagawa Choshun hitsu (Painting of koto-playing in the inner bedchamber, brushed by Miyagawa Choshun).
















