182. Japanese School (19th Century)

Man on Horseback in a Landcape
Watercolor from an album, circa 1828, on paper, stamped upper right.
11-1/4" x 13".

Note: This watercolor has been attributed to the Shijo artist, Juin. It was formerly in the collection of Joseph Herman.

400/800     SOLD: $460.00

183. Japanese School (19th Century)

Man Walking in a Snowy Landscape
Watercolor from and album, circa 1828, on paper, stamped lower left.
11-1/4" x 13".

Note: This watercolor has been attributed to the Shijo artist, Juin, and was formerly in the collection of Joseph Herman.

400/800     SOLD: $460.00

184. Hokuba (Japanese, circa 1838-1855)

Woman and Baby.
Ink on rice paper.
10-3/4" x 7-5/8".

Formerly in the collection of Friedrich Succo, Germany.

This drawing as well as the following four lots are mostly comical drawings now generally attributed to Hokuba, a favorite pupil of Hokusai. He worked for a private clientele at Osaka from the late 1830s until his death in the mid-1850s. Hokuba was one of the two 19th-century Japanese artists able to make a full-time living on his black-and-white work.

The artist often accompanied these iimages, as is the case in the present five lots, with comic poems of his own composition. The former owner of these drawings, the distinguished German orientalist Dr. Friedrich Succo, pencilled in German translations of some of Hokuba's Japanese characters.

Succo always insisted that these back-and-white ink drawings were by Hokusai. As a result, the later owners long held the collection off the market hoping to verify Succo's attribution. In the mid 1990s, the collection was purchased as a whole by a London dealer, from whom the present owner acquired selected sheets.

400/600     SOLD: $258.75

185. Hokuba (Japanese, circa 1838-1855)

An Offering.
Ink on rice paper.
10-3/4" x 7-5/8".

Formerly in the collection of Friedrich Succo, Germany.

400/600     SOLD: $270.25

186. Hokuba (Japanese, circa 1838-1855)

Woman and Large Child.
Ink on paper.
10-3/4" x 7-5/8".

Formerly in the collection of Friedrich Succo, Germany.

400/600     SOLD: $368.00

187. Hokuba (Japanese, circa 1838-1855)

A Mythical Beast (the Kappa).
Ink on rice paper.
10-3/4" x 7-5/8".

Formerly in the collection of Friedrich Succo, Germany.

400/600     SOLD: $276.00

188. Hokuba (Japanese, circa 1838-1855)

Samurai in a Street.
Ink on rice paper.
10-3/4" x 7-5/8".

Formerly in the collection of Friedrich Succo, Germany.

400/600     SOLD: $368.00

189. Chinese (19th Century)

Imperial Household Document in Mandarin and Mongolian.
On silk mounted on paper, red imperial seals, elaborate white dragon seals.
11" x 56".

100/300     SOLD: $69.00

190. Chinese, 20th Century

A pair of watercolors.
Each depicting an courtly scene, one with a central figure dancing to a quartet, the second piece with a parrot at center stage with six female onlookers, unsigned.
unframed 9 1/2"h., 14 1/4" w. framed 25" h., 33 1/2" w.

150/300     SOLD: $86.25

191. Akira Matsumoto (Japanese, 20th Century)

Butterfly 34/200 (Cho-Cho San).
Woodblock print, signed in pencil and numbered lower right, matted and framed.
2-1/2" x 3" image.

50/150     SOLD: $11.50