Yosa Buson(=Shunsei[pen name], 1716-1784): ''Palace lady and oddball scholar playing zither, go, calligraphy and painting'' (according to box inscription ''Kankishogazu''), Japan, hanging scroll, ink and light colors on paper, in the humorous-cartoonish style of the poet-painter Yosa Buson the pictorial personnel is going about its noble occupations, whereby the skilfully spontaneous and fast-fluid brushwork in no way stands in the way of rich detail, in inscribed wooden box 2 seals ''Choko'' and ''Shunsei'', signed ''Toseisa Shunsei'', z.partly folding, 134x33cm(picture field)/ 194x45cm(total)/ 54cm(roll)