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NISHIYAMA KAN'EI 西山完瑛 (1833–1897) Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1879 (2) image 1
NISHIYAMA KAN'EI 西山完瑛 (1833–1897) Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1879 (2) image 2
Lot 71

NISHIYAMA KAN'EI 西山完瑛 (1833–1897)
Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1879

3 – 11 November 2025, 10:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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NISHIYAMA KAN'EI 西山完瑛 (1833–1897)

Meiji era (1868-1912), circa 1879
Beauty in a Sumptuous Kimono
Album leaf mounted as a kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink and colours on silk in roughly woven silk mounts with enamelled porcelain jikusaki (roller ends): A sumptuously attired young woman excitedly adjusts her kimono before going through the sliding doors behind her into a social gathering, gripping her fan between her teeth so she can use both hands, her furisode robe with a seasonal meandering stream and maple-leaf design, wearing a gold obidome (obi clasp) and hair ornaments; signed and sealed Kan'ei; with a modern wood storage box and a cardboard slipcase
Overall: 126 × 45.5cm (49 5/8 × 17 7/8in); image: 27.3 × 21.5cm (10 3/4 × 8 1/2in) (2).

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Provenance
Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York, 1992

The son of the Osaka painter Nishiyama Hōen, after the abolition of the feudal system Nishiyama Kan'ei retired from public life and devoted himself to painting as well as playing a leading role in local art education. Many of his best works are detailed paintings on silk, including (as here) occasional portraits of beauties—a subject his father rarely tackled—executed in a distinctive version of the Shijō manner.

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