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ITO JAKUCHU Japanese, 1716-1800 Willow Tree and Birds in Snow Ink on silk Hanging scroll, signed and seal marked. Mandarin ducks and sparrows at play on a snow-showered bank. Notated as being painted while 81. Provenance: private St. Louis collection. About the artist: Considered by many the greatest of mid-Edo eccentric painters, Jakuchu primarily focused on renderings of birds while his work was influenced by Zen ideals, bunjin literary companions, and Kano school examples in Buddhist temples. Through his own ideals, he pushed forward with more modern artistic expressions of creativity including the application process of the snowflakes as is noted in this lot, 104. Work is held in several museums worldwide, including the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Miho Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.