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Japanese Art
Lot 86*

Scenes in the Entertainment District
Artist unknown, Edo period

21 March 2018, 11:00 GMT
Edinburgh

£500 - £600

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Scenes in the Entertainment District

Artist unknown, Edo period
Two panels cut from a folding screen and mounted as a pair of vertical hanging scrolls in ink, colours and gold on paper, the joge (upper and lower silk strips) of antique Japanese silk within a modern figured silk mount, depicting respectively a tightrope walker, acrobat and musicians and revellers in a bathhouse.
Each image: 120cm x 50.5cm, overall: 189cm x 88cm, and each with box (4).

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