Emakimono scroll 絵巻 - 相撲絵巻 Sumo emaki, copy after Tosa Mitsuhiro (土佐光廣), 1800 (Kansei 12)Emakimono scroll Sumo emaki, copy by Mitsusada Tosa (1738 1806) after after Tosa Mitsuhiro () 1430 1445 (active), dated 1800 (Kansei 12), sealed and signed A beautiful emakimono, size 40x 290 cm, depicting sumo wrestlers and officials. 2 generation of Tosa painters meet at almost 400 years distance Tosa Mitsusada (1738 1806) Painter of the Tosa School in the mid to late Edo period. The second son of Tosa Mitsuyoshi, he became an Eodkoro azukari in

Each volume has 50-60 files (100-120 pages)

For further reading and another impression in the Arthur Tress Collection

Rare emakimono scroll

and shared a commonality of mentor-apprentice relationship or had graduated from the same art schools

to the six volume set of textbooks

kakejiku scroll

“according to historical facts”

and signed "Tohoru Shimizu"

but the designs are exquisite

This impression from ca 1960-70

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Taisho 8 /1919