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Yoshimura Kokei
【A small bird and sunrise】

Yoshimura Kokei, one of the Ten Excellent Painters of the Okyo School, is known for developing the more advanced style of Okyo's realism.This painting beautifully depicts the shape of the willow branches using a technique called "tsuketate," which expresses shapes using only the surface of the brush without drawing outlines.
Number
D-181
Title
A small bird and sunrise
Artist
Yoshimura Kokei
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 32.5 × H 99 cm (Image) ・ W 44.5 × H 188 cm (Mount)
Condition: slightly stained , slightly creased , trace of repair on the image
Auction catalogue of Denbei Miyai's Collection and Owner of Rinjiang Hermitage in Chailin, Gangzhou.(February 1920) , Auction catalogue of an anonymous landlord's Collection , Photographic Archive of Japanese Paintings
Artist History
The painter Yoshimura Kokei（1769–1836）was born in Kyoto and one of Maruyama Ōkyo's ten famous pupils. Kokei was good at flower-bird painting and worked for Nishi Honganji Temple.
Price
120,000yen

Yoshimura Kokei
【A small bird and sunrise】

Yoshimura Kokei, one of the Ten Excellent Painters of the Okyo School, is known for developing the more advanced style of Okyo's realism.This painting beautifully depicts the shape of the willow branches using a technique called "tsuketate," which expresses shapes using only the surface of the brush without drawing outlines.
Number
D-181
Title
A small bird and sunrise
Artist
Yoshimura Kokei
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 32.5 × H 99 cm (Image) ・ W 44.5 × H 188 cm (Mount)
Condition: slightly stained , slightly creased , trace of repair on the image
Auction catalogue of Denbei Miyai's Collection and Owner of Rinjiang Hermitage in Chailin, Gangzhou.(February 1920) , Auction catalogue of an anonymous landlord's Collection , Photographic Archive of Japanese Paintings
Artist History
The painter Yoshimura Kokei（1769–1836）was born in Kyoto and one of Maruyama Ōkyo's ten famous pupils. Kokei was good at flower-bird painting and worked for Nishi Honganji Temple.
Price
120,000yen

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