Japanese Shikishi Art Board Painting Vtg Lotus Flower Red Leaf Black Blank A716 quartz Nikko Mountain

Nikko Mountain

Design: Hand-painted blue flower

The characters are painted in different sizes

late in the Edo era

Japanese wooden storage box for tools

Japanese Shikishi Art Board Painting Vtg Lotus Flower Red Leaf Black Blank A716 quartz Nikko MountainJapanese Shikishi Art Board Painting This vintage Japanese shikishi hand painted art board features lotus flowers and leaves in red and black. The vague outlines of leaves seem to describe them floating on water, and a lot of blank behind the painting might mean calm water. This shikishi has writing and is signed with a red seal. There are three basic types of shikishi papercalligraphy (poem, haiku) only, calligraphy with pictures, and pictures only.