**SOLD** Watercolour Study of a Black Kimono

Watercolour study of a black kimono 

Decorated with a design of a thousand cranes and a spider’s web over Mount Fuji

Unsigned. Inscribed fujimi no kumonosu to tsuru. Early 20th century

Sight size: 37 by 26 cm

Modern frame

Information: 

Although not obvious to us in the West, the spider is considered auspicious in China and Japan, probably because the Chinese word for it is a homonym for happiness

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