UYU SANJIN / KIMURA MOKURO (1774-1856) KAISEKI (PROBABLY 19TH C.) EDO AND MEIJI, 19TH CENTURY Two Japanese yurei-zu kakemono (hanging scroll paintings), both in ink on paper, the first painted with a company of skeletal friends enjoying lively socialising, a long poem above about the ephemerality of the human condition, one skeleton holding a painting inscribed Yume wa maboroshi awa no kei (Dreams are an illusion, a scene of bubbles), signed Uyu Sanjin and with two artist`s seals, 108cm x 26cm; the other with a skeleton presenting a scroll painting of a prunus tree to his bony acolytes, a poem above about sharing the true meaning of life with old friends, turning into ashes and returning to earth after life; signed Kaiseki and with two seals, the one reading as `flourish like the pine and cypress`, 123.5cm x 29.3cm; one with a tomobako wood box. (3)