Japanese scroll painting of 3 skeletons celebrating Obon. One skeleton dances with a fan while two others pay a drum and a shamisen. The Obon festival happens in summer and is a time to honor the dead with music, dance, parades and other events. It is believed that ancestors' spirits return to the world of the living during Obon. Painted in ink and light colors on silk. Signed and with seal of Takeuchi Seiho (1864 - 1942) Seiho traveled and studied in Europe was being strongly influenced by how to express lights in the Western painting methods. After coming back home, he tried to combine such Western techniques of realism and Japanese painting styles, and he established his own style. A recipient of many Japanese awards and member of Japanese artist guilds.

Dimensions: Total size: 72 1/2" high x 22 3/4" wide (25 1/2" wide including rollers). Size of art: 47" high x 16 1/4" wide