SSeiko: Sandpipers
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Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913) attr.

Two sandpipers on the seashore

Signature: Seiko 静湖

Seal: illegible (likely Seiko)

Publisher: (Daikokokuya, Tokyo)

Date: c. 1900-1910

Size: Shikishiban, 23.9 x 25.3 cm (overall)

Excellent impression and colour, with relief printing. Excellent condition.

Ill. in Andon No. 76, p. 47, fig. 6 (birds identified as Charadrius placidus, a plover species). Cf. also British Museum, 1946,0209,0.128 (Morrison Coll.), MFA Boston, RES. 41.33 (colour variant of the wings).
Usually the fine bird depictions bearing this signature (despite the different spelling of the first character) are attributed to the famous woman painter Okuhara Seiko (see British Museum, MFA Boston, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and others). Merrit and Yamada (Guide, p. 133) do not make any attribution. For a possible attribution to the kacho-e-artist Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918) see Neumann and Schaap in: Andon No. 76, 2004, p. 40 ff.

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