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Kawabata Gyokusho

Meiji period (1868-1912), About 1900

Kawabata Gyokusho was born in Kyoto but moved to Tokyo in 1866 to briefly study Western style painting with the English artist Charles Wirgman (1832-1891). In 1890 he was appointed professor at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts where he taught the traditional Japanese Shijo style of painting. Mt. Fuji was one of his subjects. He was a leading member of many of the fine art societies of his day.

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Seated elephant-headed figure with six arms, on lotus base, in front of ornate nebula topped by canopy; figure is mounted on small wooded base, and shows traces of vermilion - evidence of devotion. A detailed cast in the round, with openwork in nebula
A life-size torso of a Lohan
Buddha Shakyamuni with wearth-witnessing gesture seated cross-leged on a Double-Lotus Base. Consecratory contents removed prior to receipt. Rice-grain pattern on garments.
Foreign Children at Play, Utagawa Yoshikazu, ink and color on paper