Unknown "Hundred Cranes and Pine, Bamboo, and Plum" Late Edo period-Meiji era, Japanese hanging scroll, kakejiku

Art work details

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Setting weight
This piece weighs 1.75 kg and will be shipped in 120 size.

Material
Japanese pigments on silk
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Size
Overall: vertical 210.5× width 84.5cm＊width does not include roller ends.
(the work: vertical 143.5× width 69.5cm)

Condition
・There are burns, stains, wrinkles, floats on the Japanese paper on the back of the cover.
・There are burns, stains on the image.
・There are burns, stains, wrinkles, fracture, warp in the mounting.

Remarks
・Roller ends is Bone.
・There is no signature on the box.

Materials for mounting
・All of them are made of silk.

Other
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*There may be a slight difference in color between the photo and the actual product.

Biography
・The bio of the author is unknown.

From the store
This is a very well drawn illustration of a group of cranes by the Kano school.

There is only a seal in the lower right corner, but the details are unknown.
However, the way rocks, cranes, and pine, bamboo, and plum blossoms are drawn is in the Kano school style.

When I actually counted the cranes, there were 104. (There may be some errors.)
This is speculation, but the original owner (or a close relative) may have asked him to draw as many cranes as his age to celebrate his longevity.

Also, if you look at the fabric on the top and bottom of the cover, it looks shorter than normal. This is because the original owner (probably from a later generation) could not display the hanging scroll in the alcove of his house if it remained in its original size, so he asked a mounting shop to cut it short.
I think it was originally over 230cm long.
Additionally, the cover itself appears to be from a later period (early 1900s) than the painted image.

In any case, considering the amount of time and effort it takes to draw the cranes and the background with such great care, it must have taken more effort than I imagined.
When you see the real thing, you will be amazed at the skill of the ancient painters who were able to draw each crane with its different movements.