..naga. 19th century - image-1

Lot 71 Dα

..naga. 19th century

Auction 1146 - overview Cologne
06.12.2019, 14:00 - Japan, India/South-East Asia
Estimate: 1.200 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.612 € (incl. premium)



..naga. 19th century

Horizontal scroll, with title to the outside Hyakki yagyô (Night parade of One Hundred Ghosts), depicting frolicking ghosts and monsters. Ink and colours on paper. At the end inscription reading nite Tosa Mitsunobu zu ...naga utsusu kore.

Copy of the famous scroll of the same subject and title by Tosa Mitsuobu.
28.5 x cm

Provenance

Prof. Heinrich Mayr (Landsberg am Lech 29.10.1854 - 21.1.1911 Munich), who taught botany in Tokyo from 1888 to 1891