Antique Japanese Kakejiku Bijin-ga Beauty Spider Web Kimono Meiji Taisho Scroll 72"L Haori late Edo (circa 1800s–1860s)

late Edo (circa 1800s–1860s)

This scroll

Weight = 14 pounds

published in Tokyo in March 1904 — within weeks of the war's outbreak

Antique Japanese Kakejiku Bijin-ga Beauty Spider Web Kimono Meiji Taisho Scroll 72"L Haori late Edo (circa 1800s–1860s)Japanese kakejiku hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, standing bijin in white spider web patterned kimono with black obi (Bijin ga), with original storage box, Meiji to Taish period Japan; Meiji to Taish period, c. 1890s1920s; signed with two red seals; original wooden storage box inscribed A refined and distinctly unusual bijin ga (, beauty painting) depicting a standing woman in formal dress, rendered in ink and soft mineral color on paper. She