- Kameisai - Lot 251

- Kameisai Two Chinese children wo Chinese children are sitting on stools in front of a low table. One is preparing ink, the other is writing with a brush on a long unrolled scroll, the words: "the mountain of the south". On the left-hand side of the surimono are seven haiku dedicated to the New Year. Date: Hinoe uma (1846) Signed Kameisai. Surimono shikishiban: 19.4 x 26.0 cm - Tonan Umekawa (active 1830-1860) Two little boys wo little boys are raking the ground littered with pine needles, which they collect in wicker baskets. In the upper part of the print are inscribed eight haiku poems (poems in seventeen syllables). Signed Tônan. Surimono shikishiban: 19.0 x 17.0 cm - Hanzan Matsukawa (1818-1888) Two maids Playing with pine needles under the delighted eye of a companion seated beside them. Date: 1854 (Year of the Monkey). Signed Kakyo Hanzan. Surimono shikishiban: 17.9 x 23.9 cm This is a haiku saitan surimono, New Year's surimono accompanied by haiku, short poems of seventeen syllables. Together.