Lot description
SUZUKI KIITSU (1796-1858) A Beauty and a Dandy Edo period (1615-1868), early/mid-19th century A pair of kakejiku (hanging scrolls) forming a diptych in ink, colour, and gold on silk, in floral-patterned printed mounts imitating sarasa (chintz), depicting a man and woman of the Kanbun era (1661-1673) standing against a plain background, the man in the right-hand scroll wearing a paulownia-patterned kimono and headband and holding a sword in his left hand, the beauty in the left-hand scroll clad in a peony-patterned kimono, her right hand concealed inside the sleeve whilst adjusting it with the other, both signed Hokozu (Copied from an old painting) Seisei Kiitsu and sealed Shukurin; with double tomobako wood storage boxes, the inner box inscribed outside the lid Bijin-e tsuifuku (A pair of scrolls of a beauty), inscribed inside the lid Kodai fuzoku-ga Seisei Kiitsu o shinseki mugimono nari yotte kore o shirusu Shuitsu kan with a seal, (Ancient genre painting, this is without doubt a genuine painting by old man Kiitsu, recorded and examined by Suzuki Shuitsu). Overall: 173cm x 36.5cm (68 1/8in x 14 3/8in); image: 83.7cm x 25cm (33in x 9 13/16in). (4).