SANO Takao

(born 1941)

'Kites in the Blue Sky'
(descriptive title)


SANO Takao, 'Kites
        in the Blue Sky'
'Kites in the Blue Sky'
   
  1970ies

Comment - A blue sky with lots of colourful kites. From the left: a white Edo kite ("Edo-tako", "½­‘õ„J") with red kanji characters ("Kanji kite", "ji tako", "×Ö„J"), a six angled Sanjo Rokakku (Sanj¨­ Rokkaku, ÈýÌõÁù½Ç), a Yakko kite ("yakko tako", "Å«„J"), and below the Yakko an Edo kite with a red sun, another Edo kite, a square kite, that may be a (Nagasaki) Hata or Flag kite (Nagasaki hata tako, éLÆéᦄJ), and above the square kite a Fugu (puffer fish) kite (ºÓëà „J).


Series - unknown series


Artist - see Biography


Signature
- none


Publisher - Watanabe (¶ÉÞx), (publisher's seal)


Image Size - 8.5 x 18.5cm (3 11/32" x 7 9/32")


Condition - single sheet; nishiki-e (cloured woodblock); long postcard size



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