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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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Yoshimoto GESSO (1881-1936)
A Cuckoo in Flight. c.1930
- Category
- Japanese | Nature
- Publisher
- Nishinomiya Yosaku.
oban diptych, 25.1 cm × 37.9 cm
Very good impression, strong visible woodgrain. Very good condition.
A cuckoo in flight on a rainy evening. Gesso was an important designer of kacho-e (nature prints) published by Hasagewa and or Nishinomiya 1910-30.
"Hanken shoyu Nishinomiya Yosaku" (Copyright owned by Nishinomiya Yosaku) in the margin.
£180