A two-fold lacquer screen depicting a persimmon tree in gold, silver and various coloured taka-maki-e (high-relief lacquer) against a dark orange ground, by Ishii Seishi (1899-1984).
Signed: Seishi saku (made by Seishi).
Japan, Showa era 1942.
The tomobako (original wood box) is signed Ishii Seishi saku (made by Ishii Seishi), sealed Seishi, and inscribed Showa junana nen no Bunten shuppin (exhibited at the Bunten exhibition in 1942).
Exhibited: The 5th Shin-Bunten Exhibition (The 4th Section, Arts and Crafts division), 1942, no. 18.
Published: Nitten-shi hensan iinkai (The committee to compile the history of Nitten exhibitions) ed., Nittenshi (History of Nitten Exhibitions) vol. 15 (Shin-Bunten Exhibitions III), (Tokyo, 1985), p196, 205, no. 18.
Screens
A two-fold screen with the Uji River and its bridge
An eight-fold screen depicting flowers of the four seasons
A six-fold screen with a cherry tree
A two-fold screen with a river landscape
A six-fold screen with a covey of uzura and chicks
A six-fold screen with grape vines
A two-fold screen with chrysanthemums
A pair of six-fold paper screens with the Plains at Musashino
A pair of four-fold screens with kuri flowers
A two-fold screen with court ladies
Four fusuma by Nagasawa Rosetsu
A six-fold screen with autumn flowers and grasses
A six-fold paper screen with poem slips
A pair of six-fold screens with scattered fans
A paper screen with the Uji river and its bridge
A pair of six-fold screens with poem slips from the 17th century
A two-fold lacquer screen with a persimmon tree
A six-fold paper screen with the Plains at Musashino
