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Japanese Poet Hirasawa Tetsuo Oil on board | 19,5x14 cm. | 1916-1920 This excellent portrait of poet and artist Hirasawa Tetsuo is still in fairly good condition. It was done in one sitting. Hirasawa later visited the Mother in Pondicherry (October 1924) plate 30 |
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Kobayashi in her Room Oil on canvas | 32,5x44 cm. | 1917-1918 This portrait of the Mother's friend Nobuko Kobayashi was done in Kyoto. She is here preparing some medicine plate 31 |
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Detail plate 32 |
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Snow on a Tree Oil on board | 15x22,5 cm. | 1917-18 Snow on a tree in a Kyoto garden. Signed: MA (monogram) plate 37 |
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Portrait of Mrs. Kobayashi Oil on ivory | 1917-18 A miniature on ivory done in Japan and presented to Madame Kobayashi plate 44 |
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Mrs. Okhawa in her Balcony Oil on canvas | 32,5x44 cm. | 1918 This portrait of Mrs. Okhawa in a balcony overlooking Noshiri Lake was probably done when the Mother stayed with her in Kyoto one summer. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated: MA (monogram) plate 33 |
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Detail plate 34 |
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Trees of Daiunji Temple Oil on board | 15x22,5 cm. | 1918 The Mother and Paul Richard visited the Daiunji temple in Sarashina, about 200 km northwest of Tokyo, between 12 and 15 September 1918. Plates 36 and 41 and drawings Nos. 131 and 132 (p. 144) were also done here. Oil on board. Signed: MA (monogram) plate 35 |
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Roof of Daiunji Temple Oil on board | 15x22,5 cm. | 1918 Signed: MA (monogram) plate 36 |
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Scroll of Daiunji Temple Ink on paper | 136x37 cm. | 1918 This scroll was done on Japanese paper and mounted as a kakemono. For the calligraphic writing in Japanese plate 41 |