The Kura - Japanese Art Treasures

Robert Mangold has been working with Japanese antiques since 1995 with an emphasis on ceramics, Paintings, Armour and Buddhist furniture.

Gathering Sansai, Taisho p. Screen by Kunko B


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Directory: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Pre 1920: Item # 1166206

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Children gathering Sansai mountain vegetables, a stunning Taisho period silk painting by Nishikubo Kunko. Three young girls wear indigo dyed country kimono, their forearms and shins protected from the grass and brush and heads covered in white scarves, straw sandals on their feet. They carry voluminous bamboo baskets as they move along the reed covered water’s edge, perhaps in search of fuki (Butterbur). The scene is performed with heavy pigment on silk, in completely original condition. It retains the original backing paper upon which is an exhibition label bearing the character Miyako (the Kyo in Kyoto) in a circle. Each screen is 69-1/2 x 150-1/2 inches (382 x 176 cm) and in very fine condition. Nishikubo Kunko is known to have been a painter of bijin beauties, and exhibited at the first National Painting Exhibition among others.