OGASAWARA NAGANARI (1867-1958) YOSHIO (PROBABLY ACT. 19TH C.), KAKIMOTO SHIGEFUJI (DATES UNKNOWN), GOHO (DATES UNKNOWN), AND OTHERS MEIJI AND LATER, 19TH CENTURY AND LATER A collection of eight Japanese paintings, including four kakemono (hanging scroll paintings) and four makimono (handscroll paintings), three printed and the fourth painted, all with calligraphy; one on a silk mount decorated with mitsu-tomoe designs, inscribed Shizukanaru, yomiwa sakarimo, hisakatano, hikarizo hana no, kokoro o miru, signed Yoshio; another inscribed with kotobuki (happy long life), signed Naganari sho and with three seals; a panel of calligraphy possibly signed Tokugyo / Noriyuki, with seals reading Kakimoto Shigefuji no in and Go Osen, inscribed `The river and the sea do not choose the smallest streams. Therefore they can become deep`, the verse taken from a Chinese original; another signed Goho koji kan sho and with a poem about a large pine forest and mountain peaks set against a valley with streams; and others, six in tomobako wood boxes, 423cm x 16.5cm max. (14)