KAWANABE KYOSAI (1831-89) MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY Three Japanese kakemono (hanging scroll paintings), ink and colour on paper, all mounted on board as panels of a byobu (screen); one depicting a Shinto procession with two men carrying a tree on a float; another with three children playing, a banner painted with a samurai above them; the third with a man cursing a seagull flying away with his fish supper; each signed with a red seal mark reading Beiju-o in (Seal of the old man of rice juice), one signed Seisei Kyosai, the other two Kyosai, each approx. 173cm x 63cm. (3) Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. Cf. S Koto, Kyosai: The Israel Goldman Collection,pp.74-75 no.26, for another Kyosai painting with the same Seisei Kyosai signature and seal.