SATÔ GYODAI (Active in the first half of the 19th century) Kakejiku in ink and light colours on silk, depicting two figures with their backs to one another on either side of a screen; the first is preparing a meal, the second is eating – possibly Okame and Ebisu. Signed ‘Gyodai’ on the right. On the reverse, the inscriptions: Yamato-e shôhin, ‘small drawing in the Yamato-e style’, and 94 Hatsuuridokoro, ‘first sale (of the year), lot no. 94’. (Some soiling and minor creases). Japan, Edo period, early 19th century. A SHIJÔ SCHOOL PAINTING BY GYODA, INK AND COLOURS ON SILK, JAPAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY. DIM. 18.5 x 22.5 cm (7 1/4 x 8 7/8 in.) Note An artist of the Shijô School, a pupil of Matsumura Goshun, the school’s founder. He worked in Osaka, specialising in surimono.