Scroll Painting: "Green Dragon over Fuji"

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Artist Unidentified/unread
Title "Green Dragon over Fuji"
(given name)
Date Late-Meiji to early-Taisho period, ca1890/1910's.
Image Size Painting size: 14 1/4 x 41 1/2.
Technique Painting itself is of black and grey "sumi" and brown and torquoise pigments on tan silk.
Mounting Size Entire "kakejiku" (hanging scroll) is 18 3/4 x 68 overall.
Mounting Details Tanish silk (artwork) mounted on dark blue/white-patterned paper; different dark green paper top/bottom; brown flower-patterned tan silk "ichimonji" brocade top/bottom; dark brown wood end-pieced bottom roller.
Condition Good to Very Good.
(Few tiny spots/marks to artwork; some wear and soiling (mostly to scroll's top). Couple wrinkles top, artwork hangs well.)
Comments An attractively painted and bold rendering of Mt Fuij, with a faintly painted torquoise dragon seen against the lower brown flank--nicely mounted as a hanging scroll. A unique, truly one-of-a-kind artwork.
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Item # BG-537
Price $575