Antique dealers such as Shichibe HATTORI and Kahee TSUCHIHASHI were looking for someone who could buy the hand scrolls, and visited Takashi MASUDA (pen name Donno), industrialist, renowned master of the tea ceremony and art collector, for consultation. この絵巻の買い取り先を探していた服部七兵衛、土橋嘉兵衛らの古美術商は、当時、茶人・美術品コレクターとして高名だった、実業家益田孝(号鈍翁)のところへ相談に行った。 |