HAYAKAWA SHOKOSAI III (1864-1922)
DATED 1920
一九二零年 三代 早川尚古斎 百事如意水果竹籃 水墨設色紙本 立軸 共箱識文: 大正庚申臘月三世尚古齋鈐印: 尚古齋ink and colour on paper, painted with persimmon fruits and lingzhi fungus in a bamboo basket with handle, signed, sealed, mounted as a scroll, with wooden box 
133cm x 28.5cm 
Private collection, London; acquired from Enri Ayame Store (Enzumi Co., Ltd.), Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan (by repute)
Hayakawa Shōkosai III (1864-1922), known primarily as a bamboo artist, was also an accomplished musician, ink painter, and calligrapher. His father, Shōkosai I, single-handedly elevated bamboo crafts to a modern, high art form through his technical perfection and artistic individuality. One of the two sons of Shōkosai I, Shokosai III proved his talent and creativity at the young age of fourteen by winning the Phoenix Prize at the 1878 Exposition Universelle de Paris.A comparable two-panel folding screen Painting of Basket with Fungus of Immortality and Orchids by Hayakawa Shōkosai III is in the collection of Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, number: Alexander H. Bullock Fund, 2007.167