£580
Kinichiro Ishikawa (1871-1945) - ‘Kamakura’ watercolour and bodycolour on paper, signed and titled lower right, 53 x 36 cm; together with another work also possibly by Kinichiro Ishikawa, monogram lower right, 47 x 28 cm, matching frames and glazed (2)
Kinichiro Ishikawa was a pioneer of western art education in Taiwan. He taught part-time in Taiwan at the University of Taipei and as full-time instructor at the Taiwan Mandarin Institute. In 1923, his home in Kamakura (depicted in one of these paintings) was destroyed during the Great Kantō earthquake, indefinitely shutting down his art activities.
no provenance - local house clearance
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