Sometsuke
Set of 5 tea cups, Yunomi: Bon odori, Odori festivalSigned: Nichôsai
Seals: Kakihan
Technique: White egg shell porcelain with an underglaze blue decoration in kobalt blue Ø 9,5 x 4,3 each
Date: c. 1804
Box: Authenticated by Mizuochi Roseki (1872-1919)
Condition: fine
Mizuochi Roseki was a haiku and waka poet from Osaka, an authority on Buson and a friend of Shiki.
The outside decoration shows seven figures celebrating Bon Odori, a festival which is held in August to commemorate the death. The inside decoration shows three festival lanterns.
Nichôsai was the art-name of Matsuya Heizaburô, a sake brewer and curio dealer of Osaka who was also a comic writer, writer of plays for bunraku, the puppet theatre, and producer of kyôga - light-hearted, comic pictures.
Itami 2005
Roberts p. 60
Araki p. 811
Price: EUR 1,250 / USD 1,475
