Bird on a Maple Branch
Sold – no longer available
This piece was handmade by Suma Natsugo and was a one-of-a-kind work. It cannot be reordered and will never exist in this form again. The page stays online as part of our archive.
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Details about the sold piece
- Height 190 cm
- Width 40 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Sculpture
- Material Honshi Silk
- Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
- Wooden Box Yes
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Description
A small bird with iridescent blue plumage sits on a winding maple branch, its leaves in tones of red and orange announcing autumn – a motif full of lightness that shows Japanese bird-and-flower painting (Kachō-ga) at its finest. The coloring is subtly graduated, from the deep blue of the back to the warm rust-red of the breast, while the delicately painted leaves hang from the branch in varying stages of ripeness, lending the composition a natural sense of movement.
The painting is executed on silk and bears the signature and seal of the painter Suma Natsugo. It was created in the Shôwa period, when many artists consciously turned back to classical themes of nature painting. The scroll mounting ends with jikusaki tips made of synthetic material.
This evocative kakemono is delivered including a signed wooden box (tomobako) – a piece whose calm, seasonal scenery comes into its own both in a traditional tokonoma and as a decorative element in a bright, modern room.
