A large embroidered wall hanging


After an original design by Maruyama Okyo, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryWoven in different shades of green, brown, yellow, white and red silk and cotton threads with two cockerels confronting each other on the opposite banks of a winding stream flanked by blooming wild chrysanthemums and peonies, a toro (stone lantern) beneath the spreading boughs of a pine tree in the left foreground and a bamboo grove in the right, thatched dwellings, a pagoda and Mount Fuji looming in the distance; signed at lower right Okyo with circular seal Okyo. Overall: 204cm x 248cm (80¼in x 97 5/8in); image: 176cm x 221.5cm (69¼in x 87¼in).