Unknown: Mountain landscape
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Unknown Artist – Meiji period

Sansui – A mountain landscape with a hamlet on the bank of a river, depicted in the Chinese-inspired style of the Nanga or Bunjinga literati painting.

Signature and seal not read

Date: 1880s

Original Japanese colour woodblock print. Size: Uchiwa-e, horizontal octagon, 22.2 x 28.8 cm

Very nice impression and colours. Vertical centrefold as usual, else very good condition. Rare.

Cf. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam No. RP-P-1961-111. Rappard-Boon, The Age of Yoshitoshi. Japanese prints from the Meiji- and Taishô periods. Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 79-81, No. 109.3

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