Yamamoto Shôun (1870-1965)
Three young beauties with a kitten are looking out of the window of an inn. They are amused by an auspicious lion dance (shishi-mai) New Year's procession passing in front of the house.
Title: Mon no nigiwai hi (Lively activity at the gate)
Series: Shiki no nagame (Views of the Four Seasons)
Signature: Shôun. Seal: Matsu(tani?)
Publisher: Matsuki Heikichi, Tokyo
Date: 1906
Original Japanese colour woodblock print.
Size: Horizontal Ôban, 20,5 x 30 cm (image), 24,2 x 36,5 cm (overall)
Excellent impression and colours, with embossing. Unbacked sheet with full, wide margins and without album centrefold. No publisher and date (as also the copy illustrated in the Kôchi Museum catalogue). Small brown spot, paper a little bit age-toned, else very nice condition. From a rarely seen, very charming series of 12 month scenes by this subtle artist.
Ill. in: Gotô Masako, Yamamoto Shôun, Kochi Museum of Art, Kochi 2005, Cat. No. 113; see also Smithsonian, Muller Coll. S2003.8.3346, with marginal text), RISD 2006.102 (album).
€ 1.200,-