Tsubaki Chinzan

Tsubaki Chinzan (1801-1854) Cockscomb and Insects Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; depicting the tall flowers growing amid garden rocks with rosehip-covered branches and autumn grasses, two insects hovering in the air at left, while others draw nectar from an orange cockscomb blossom, above; signed Tsubaki hitsu with seals Baki , Takuka and Chinzan no in ; together with a double tomobako bearing an authentication signed Watanabe Kai and dated in accordance with 1880, to the inner box lid. 44 1/2 x 21 3/4in (113 x 55.2cm) Footnote: The inscribed poem celebrates the beauty of the cockscomb flower that survives even through a winter's frost. The style of the signature and the small seals used here date this work to the period around 1840-1845. The tomobako contains a letter of authenticity dated to 1948, by Seijo (dates unknown), a prominent Kyoto mounter.

1840, colored on paper, 29.3x20.4(each)cm.

Tsubaki Chinzan (1801-1854) Wild grapes and squirrel Dated and inscribed Mizunoe tora [1842] sha oite Takkado and sealed Takka and Chinzan Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper 49 5/8 x 22 5/16in. (123.6 x 56.5cm.)

After Tsubaki Chinzan (1801-54 ) Fowl in a Landscape Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; featuring a hen and two chicks below a rooster standing on rockwork near blossoming flowers, with a colophon dated kanoto-i (1851) and bearing the signature Chinzan , with three seals 52 x 19 1/2in (132.2 x 49.4cm)

After Tsubaki Chinzan (19th century) Raven on chestnut tree, bearing signature Chinzan san jin and bearing seal Tsubaki andChinzan no in, hanging scroll; ink and color on silk 46½ x 22in. (118.1 x 55.8cm.) Tokusai Kangyoku (19th century) Beauty, signed Kangyoku sha and sealed Kan and another seal, hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk 39¾ x 12¼in. (101 x 31.1cm.) (2)