Meiji era (1868-1912), 1906 Kadomatsu (pine saplings) and shijukara (Japanese tits); a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and colours on gold-leaf on paper with embroidered silk borders and lacquered frames, the carefully massed motifs depicted floating on a gold background with only the slightest indication of the ground in which the trees grow, a large group of trees at far right and the first two panels of the left-hand screen empty except for two birds; the right-hand screen signed at the right Hinoe-uma chuka jokan Kokyo kore o egaku (Painted by Kokyo in early May 1906) and sealed Gashu, the left-hand screen signed at left Kokyo kore o egaku (Painted by Kokyo) and sealed Gashu; with an inscribed wood storage box. Each screen overall: 170cm x 384cm (66 7/8in x 151 1/8in); image: 152cm x 358cm (59¾in x 141in). (3).