Två racketar i trä med pappers- och textilapplikationer med motiv av geisha och samuraj. En med bjällra. Baksidor bemålade med blommor. Racketarnas längd ca 42-47 cm.
Slitage.
From the Collection of Gustaf Wallenberg (1863-1939). Gustaf Wallenberg was Swedish business man, diplomat and active politician. He was the son of André Oscar Wallenberg, founder of Stockholm Enskilda Bank (today SEB, and grandfather of Raoul Wallenberg (1912-47?). After a career in the Swedish Navy he turned to the business world and was very active in striving to better the transoceanic shipping industry. Something that came in handy when he in 1908 successfully negotiated with the Qing court in Beijing about a friendship, trade and navigation treaty. The collection was acquired between 1906 and 1918 when Wallenberg was the Swedish Envoyé in Tokyo. From 1907 he was also accredited for Beijing and came to spend time in both countries as the Swedish Ambassador. Mr Wallenberg came to be in China in dramatic part of its history, when a lot of items came on the market and when the golden era of collecting Chinese works of art started in Europe. Thence by descent.
Hagoita används för att spela hanetsuki under nyår och det anses kunna driva bort onda andar. Spelet introducerades redan under Muromachi (1392-1573) och hanetsuki-racketarnas nuvarande form utvecklades under Edo (1603-1868) då de utformades med motiv av kabukiskådespelare med tredimensionella applikationer. Hagoita har därefter blivit ett populärt samlarobjekt och även tillverkats som souvernirer.
Bukowskis sold a part of this collection previously at Bukowskis Sale 554 in 2009 and Bukowskis Sale 556, 2010.