Watanabe (Yôsai) Nobukazu (1872-1944)
Dressed in splendid kimonos, five elegant ladies are busy arranging flowers in vases for an ikebana show; an impressive folding screen with a painting of Mt. Fuji provides a beautiful background.
Title: Onna reishiki - shiki no Seika/Ikebana (Ladies‘ manners – Ikebana for the four seasons)
Signature: Yôsai Nobukazu hitsu
Publisher: Takekawa Seikichi (Seieidô)
Date: Meiji 26 (1893)
Size: Oban triptych, 35,5 x 70 cm
Fine impression and colour, with embossing and burnishing. The three sheets a little bit trimmed on top and sides, not glued together and retaining old album backing. A few small printer’s stains. Overall excellent condition.
A rare triptych showing interesting ikebana vessels and arrangements. Noteworthy also the depiction of a Wadokei (or Yagura-dokei), a rare Japanese Edo period clock.
Cf. National Diet Library (NDL), info:ndljp/pid/1307871.
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