Tsukioka Kôgyo (1869-1927)
A mouse (or rat) nibbling on a small red radish.
Signature: Kôgyo
Seal: Toshihisa
Publisher: (Matsuki Heikichi, Daikokuya), Tokyo
Date: c. 1900-1910
Original Japanese colour woodblock print
Size: Shikishiban, 24 x 25 cm
This lovely image in a rare early impression. Fine impression and colours, with gofun white applied at the radish and at the veins of the leaves. Unbacked. Verso in upper corners two small glue spots from previous attachment, at the left margin a box pleat (possibly from printing), otherwise excellent condition.
Ill. in Milne Henderson, Zeshin & Related Artists, London n.d. (1978?), no. 66. Also ill. in Schaap/Rimer, The Beauty of Silence. Leiden/Boston 2010, p. 14, no. 102
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