A silk Painting by Ishikawa Chikuson mounted as a hanging scroll enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Chikurin Tanuki no Zu. The deftly brushed image of the bashful creature is accented with gold along the bamboo, in a border of beige patterned silk and features ivory rollers (these will be changed for export).It is 49 x 211 cm (19-1/4 x 83 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Ishikawa Chikuson was born in Tokyo in 1885, and studied Nihonga painting under Matsumoto Fuko and Suzuki Kason. After the great Kanto earthquake, he relocated to Nagoya, where he remained until his death in 1952.
