O Series (O2-O9)

This partial set (missing the first and last of this set of ten) of small paintings (each only 37 cm wide) might be regarded as “folk art” relative to others in this collection. Each is dominated by a single judge with only one or at most two types of torture scenes depicted beneath him. Regarding their provenance, there is a sexagenary date (巳卯) of manufacture on the back of one scroll which could be either 1939 or, presumably less likely, 1879. There are other short texts on the backs of other scrolls.