Very fine large scroll on high quality paper with 14 extremely beautiful paintings of plants and animals

by Akio Yamamoto, or Keigu

$13,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Scroll 420 x 12,000 mm. , with elaborate silk brocade endpaper at beginning. Japan : 1880-86. This beautifully rendered scroll of natural history paintings was executed, with one exception, by Akio or Keigu Yamamoto 1827-1903 , Confucian scholar, doctor, botanist, and highly gifted artist. He was born in Kyoto, the son of the prominent doctor and botanist Boyo Yamamoto 1778-1859 , the direct disciple of Ono Ranzan 1729-1810 , the famous professor

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