Comment - A delicate painting of two oni flying edo kaku kites. Both kites are kanji kites. The characters on the kites are not distinguishable. A bukolic scene with mountains and a lake or the sea, with sailing boats in the far distance. A winding boardwalk leading to a fence and a small hut behind. brushwood, some trees and a large haystack on the left. A hill behind the hut shwos to persons, maybe also flying kites.

On the left, a dominating large oni with small horns on his head, has his mouth wide open, revealing his sharp teeth, bare breast, and a felt loin fur, holds a kite spool in his left hand, and the kite line in his right. The edo kite is flying in moderate wind, as the kite tail show.

A small oni to the right watches his big companion, holding another edo kaku kanji kite.

Series - ~


Artist - see Biography


Signature - Shiba kokan with not identified epithet and red artists seal on the lower center right on painting; the first charakters revealing the year (First year of Tenmei era, Tenmei-moto, 天明元)


Publisher - ~


Image Size - 40.1 x 111.8 cm   (15 6/8" x 44 1/15"); complete kakemono 203 X 53 cm  (79 10/11" X 20 6/7")


Condition - multi coloured painting; ink and color on silk; mounted as kakemono with bone roller ends