{"product_id":"a-late-edo-period-painting-album-circa-1800-1858-35-beautiful-paintings-and-calligraphy-examples-on-paper-and-silk-landscapes-floral-arrangements-birds-and-more","title":"A Late Edo Period Painting Album, Circa 1800-1858. 35 Beautiful Paintings and Calligraphy Examples on Paper and Silk. Landscapes, Floral Arrangements, Birds and More","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eTitle: A Late Edo Period Painting Album, Circa 1800-1858. 35 Beautiful Paintings and Calligraphy Examples on Paper and Silk. Landscapes, Floral Arrangements, Birds and More \u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Attributed to Kikuchi Gozan; Suzuki Kiitsu; Yanagawa Seigan; Haruki Nanmei; Others\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eA Late Edo Period, early to mid 19th century painting album, attributed to several artists of the periods, with names such as Kikuchi Gozan, Yanagawa Seigan, Haruki Nanmei and even Suzuki Kiitsu of the famed Rinpa School, bearing their seals and signatures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThere are 17, beautiful full-page paintings, with six being produced on silk, while the rest are on paper. From landscapes to floral arrangements, deities, and more, there are several different subjects produced with various techniques, and many in color. There are also 18 full page examples of fine and beautiful calligraphy, several of which are produced on silk as well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eKikuchi Gozan\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e1769-1849)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas a Chinese poet of the late Edo period. Born in Sanuki Province, he began studying poetry at the age of 10 under his father, Kikuchi Muroyama. He studied under Shibano Kuriyama at Shōheizō School from a young age and joined the Kōkōsha poets' circle, becoming widely known for his poems such as \"Zoku Yoshiwara Kotoba\" and \"Fukagawa Takee\". In 1800, he left Edo for a \"spree of self-creation\" and spent several years in the Kansai region. He returned to Edo in the middle of the Bunka Era and published Gozandō Shiwa (Poetry Stories of the Three Kingdoms) in succession throughout the Bunsei Era. His critical essays on Chinese poetry led him to dominate the poetry circles of the Kanto and Chubu regions. He lived near Hongō 1-chōme until his later years, earning a living by teaching poetry to his students.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eSuzuki Kiitsu \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e(1796-1858) was a painter of the Rinpa School, and student of the famed Sakai Hoitsu (1761–1828). For a long time, he was considered a minor member of Rinpa school of Japanese painting, but in recent years his work has been reevaluated and gained recognition, leading to a series of major exhibitions of his art in 2016–2017 in Tokyo, Hyogo and Kyoto, with considerable focus on some of the six-panel byōbu folding screens he produced.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eYanagawa Seigan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e(1789-1858)\u003c\/span\u003e w\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eas a Chinese poet of the late Edo Period. Born to a local samurai in Sone Village, Mino Province he became a disciple of Yamamoto Hokuzan and studied at the Keigi Juku School in 1808. In 1820 he married the female Chinese poet Koran, traveling with her to Okayama, Shimonoseki, and Nagasaki, and upon returning to Edo, founding the Tamaike Ginsha Group. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eHaruki Nanmei\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e (1795-1878) was the son of literati artist Haruki Nanko (1759-1839), Nanmei’s given names were Hidehiro, Ryu, and Ryu. He inherited his father’s various painting techniques and coloring, which Nanko learned from the Zhang Qiugu and Fei Qinghu, two of the four great Chinese artists of the Qing Period who introduced the techniques of the Southern School of painting, and the art of literati painting to Japan in general. Nanmei took his father’s style and excelled, with some truly masterful landscapes, as well as bird-and-flower paintings. He was well-known at the time, and because of his gentle personality, he gained influential patrons such as Lord Sanjo, Lord Hosokawa, Lord Nakagawa Hisanari of the Oka domain, and Taneki Akizuki. Daimyo Yamauchi Toyoshige (Also known as Lord Yodo) also favored Nanmei, so much so that he built a house for him next to his Hashiba villa. He passed away in 1878, at the age of 84.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;\"\u003eThe paintings have been finely bound in \u003ci\u003eorihon\u003c\/i\u003e album format, with decorated, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003erippled brocade fabric. There is a wooden box to accompany the album, preserving the contents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eOne brocade bound painting album in \u003ci\u003eorihon\u003c\/i\u003e format (34.5 x 25.3 cm), 32 leaves\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eThe paintings are in very good shape, but the album covers are detached, and the album block is split near the middle as well. There is very little soiling or staining to the paintings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"That Guy With The Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51632564601143,"sku":null,"price":3175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0281\/1589\/4371\/files\/20260102_215434.jpg?v=1769917489","url":"https:\/\/thatguywiththebooks.com\/products\/a-late-edo-period-painting-album-circa-1800-1858-35-beautiful-paintings-and-calligraphy-examples-on-paper-and-silk-landscapes-floral-arrangements-birds-and-more","provider":"That Guy With The Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}