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Gyôtei, Kawanabe 暁亭 河鍋 (1874 - 1934)

Gagaku/bugaku

Signed:	Gyotei
Sealed:	Gyotei, unread
Date:	ca. 1900
Size:	192 x 53.4 cms (mounting) 105 x 40.4 cms (painting) 76 x 21 inch (mounting) 41 x 16 inch (painting)
Technique:	colours on silk
Condition:	Chûberi (middle part) of brown silk brocade, top & bottom of beige silk. Beige&gold ichimonji and futai, bone rollers. Original wooden box, titled, inscribed, signed and sealed by the artist. Very good overall condition.
Price:	SOLD Euro
Literature:	Gagaku music and Bugaku dance are largely unknown, even in Japan. They were performed to select elites mostly in Japanese imperial courts for over twelve hundred years, though after WWII they have come more into the open.
Signature:	See signature
Detail:	See detail
Mounting:	See mounting