Japanese School (Edo/Meiji period), a figure of the shogunat...

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£50 - £70

Japanese School (Edo/Meiji period), a figure of the shogunate, seated in official dress within a feigned curtain-framed interior, the background with prunus and blossom, inscribed with verse in black calligraphic script, woodblock print picked out in colour, 41cm x 27cm; Japanese School (Edo period), a natural history book illustration, depicting a bird and crabs, 22.5cm x 15.5cm, [2] Provenance: 1) Ex Richard Lane Collection. Richard Lane (1926-2002), well-noted and regarded scholar of Japanese art and literature of the Edo period (1615-1868), who established a reputation as one of the leading experts on Ukiyo-e (''Images of the Floating World''). Later his strong ties to Hawaii, commencing with his appointment to the Honolulu Academy of Arts as Research Associate for Ukiyo-e in 1959, led to them in 2003, after Lane's death, acquiring a substantial collection of Japanese, Chinese and Korean paintings, prints and rare books from his estate. 2) The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts), until their de-acquisition of some portions of the collection in 2018.