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41. 29. One Panel by Hokusai.

[[stamp]] JAPANESE PAINTINGS NO. 441 [[/stamp [[note]]Accepted [[/note]] [[stamp]] SMITHSONIAN [[/stamp]][[note]]45 [[/note]] [[note]] 04.174 [[/note]]

On paper. Small landscape. In the foreground, a river bank with a bridge crossing it. At the right, a group of temples amidst pine trees. In the distance, two mountains, one in black, the other in pale blue.

Signed "Hokusai Gaikojian". 1804.

#30 of Kobayashi Catalogue.

Purchased from B. Kobayashi,
Voucher #14, September, 1904.

$150.00 less 40%,

90.00[[checkmark]]

42. N.H.1272.
[[note]] 04.350 [[/note]] [[note]] Accepted [[/note]] [[stamp]] SMITHSONIAN. [[/stamp]] [[note]] 4 [[/note]] [[stamp]] JAPANESE PAINTINGS NO. 2 [[/stamp]]

One Panel by Kasuga Hotomitsu.

Eleven-headed Juichimen Kwannon standing on lotus flower in color and tracing with gold. Date 1010.

Purchased from Yamanaka & Co.,
Voucher #61, [[strikethrough]] January [[/strikethrough]] December, 1904.

400.00 [[checkmark]]

"Early Butsuga, Juichimen (Eleven-headed) Kwannon. It has been for many years in the private collection of Old Yamanka who ascribes it to Kose Ahimi.
It is one of the finest and best preserved altarpieces of the second, or Fujiwara Period. It seems to me more probably Kasuga, and so probably by Kasuga Motomitsu, the founder. This would bring it about the year 1000 A.D. or a little after. At that period the Kose and Kasuga techniques were not so very unlike. I shall certainly identify the author among the greatest names of that day, but I should like to have a longer study of it. There is nothing finer of its kind in Boston."

(See letter from Professor Fenollosa, dated December 6th, 1904.)

[[note]] 490. [[/note]]

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