YAMAMOTO TAKEO (1910-2003)
Brush Painting of a Stage Set Designed by Komura Settai (1887-1940)
Showa era (1926-1989), dated 1930
Watercolour on paper, design for the kabuki theatre with a view of a castle town and rice fields, the reverse inscribed in pencil to the effect that this design, by Komura Settai, was used for the drama Tanbo (The Rice Paddy) by Kimura Tomiko (1890-1944), the reverse of the card mount with a label Komura Settai butai sochi shosakuji Tanbo (Set design by Komura Settai: The Rice Field) and Showa gonen kabukiza joen Yamamoto Takeo (Performed at the Kabukiza Theatre in 1930, Yamamoto Takeo) with seal Takeo, mounted on card. Paper: 16.7cm x 48.5cm (6 9/16in x 19 1/8in); image: 7.5cm x 36.2cm (2 15/16in x 14¼in). (2).
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