Album of loose large folded sheets of designs for ceiling decorations prepared

by various disciples see below of Matsumura Keibun by Matsumura Keibun’S Disciples

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

91 drawings, using brush & color washes on sheets measuring 710 x 660 mm., all within two loose binder boards. Japan : from a pasted-on note from the lower board: “91 drawings…13 August 1860.” A remarkable collection of 91 large and fine drawings of botanical subjects for paintings on coffered ceilings gotenjo or goutenjo or goutenjou of aristocratic homes, shrines, and temples, mainly in Kyoto, prepared by many of the disciples and students of

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