Numerous woodcut illustrations, printed in black, and white of figures, furniture, 66pp; some worming in upper margin of some leaves.
Watanabe Gentai was the son of the painter Watanabe Shinsui (1720-67). He studied under his father, Bincho and Nakayama Koyo, but also took in the flower-and-bird paintings of the Nanpin school. He became a Buddhist monk and took the name Gentai. This work is influenced by a respect for Chinese painting and features a number of seals. From an early French collection with note written in ink inserted.
Numerous woodcut illustrations, printed in black, and white of figures, furniture, 66pp; some worming in upper margin of some leaves.
Watanabe Gentai was the son of the painter Watanabe Shinsui (1720-67). He studied under his father, Bincho and Nakayama Koyo, but also took in the flower-and-bird paintings of the Nanpin school. He became a Buddhist monk and took the name Gentai. This work is influenced by a respect for Chinese painting and features a number of seals. From an early French collection with note written in ink inserted.
| Binding | 27.5 x 18 cm, orig. blue wrappers, with title, slight damage to letterpiece, some loosening to threads on spine, |
| Publication | Edo : Kinkado? [Suharaya Sasuke], 1805. See British Museum 1979,0305,0.206. |
- Product Code: RGW18862
- Availability: In Stock
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£250.00