Yoshimoto GESSO (1881-1936)

Dragon and Mount Fuji. c.1910

Category

Japanese | 20th Century

Series

Japanese Scenes on Tanzaku.

Publisher

Nishinomiya.

tanzaku, 9.0 cm × 34.0 cm

Excellent impression, colour and condition.

An iconic subject in Japanese art of the dragon emerging from a thick cloud of black smoke and ascending Mount Fuji, heavens-bound. The symbol is an auspicious one, suggesting good fortune, and a reference to the deity that is said to live in the mountain. Gesso sets his design in the narrow tanzaku format. Signed Gesso.

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