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This Morning's Autumn (right)

This Morning's Autumn (right)

1877 - 1938

Watanabe Kōkan 渡辺公観

Japanese

Pair of six-panel folding screens painted by Nihonga painter Watanabe Kōkan (1877-1938) depicting a woodswoman (Oharame) tying her headscarf in front of a mill as she prepares for work on an early autumn morning. Exhibited at the 1918 Bunten exhibition.

Right screen of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on silk

Taishō era, 1912-1926

Paintings