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UNKOKU Tōeki(雲谷 等益 Japanese, 1591-1644)

A two-fold paper screen painted in ink on a gold and buff ground. The scene, contained within a roundel of gunbai (war fan) form, depicts a winter landscape with geese in flight and three Chinese scholars playing Go in a boat moored at a reed covered river bank.

Japan 17th century Edo period     via



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