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Yamamoto Koitsu (1843-1905) Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century (2) image 1
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Lot 235*

Yamamoto Koitsu (1843-1905)
Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century

16 May 2019, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Yamamoto Koitsu (1843-1905)

Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century
Kakejiku (vertical hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk in silk mounts, depicting a male and female pheasant among early summer plants including tanpopo (dandelions), sugina (field horsetails), and sumire (violets); signed Seisei Koitsu and sealed; with a wood storage box. Overall: 137cm x 89cm (54in x 35 5/8in); image: 46cm x 69cm (18 1/8in x 27 1/8in). (2).

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The elder brother of Sakai Doitsu (see lot 243), Yamamoto Koitsu (also pronounced Koichi) worked as a designer for the Kiryu Kosho Kaisha Company, a government-backed company that produced craft work for export. In his later years he moved from Tokyo to Kanazawa, where he painted larger-scale works and mentored promising artists such as Ishizaki Koyo, whose celebrated screens of Vying Peacocks are in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City. For Koitsu's activities as a designer, see Joe Earle, Suzuki Chokichi: Master of Metal Raptors, in Victoria Weston ed., Eaglemania: Collecting Japanese Art in Gilded Age America, exhibition catalogue, Boston College, 2019, pp.25-30.

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