Nishimura Nantei (1775-1834)

Five beauties

Details

Nishimura Nantei (1775-1834)
Five beauties
Signed and sealed Nantei
Two-panel screen; ink, color and gold on silk
56 1/8 x 55in. (142.7 x 139.6cm.)

Provenance

The Manno Art Museum, Osaka

Exhibited

Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan, "Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan kaikan jusshunen kinen tokubetsuten: Kyo no eshi wa hyakka ryoran: Heian jinbutsushi ni miru Edo jidai no Kyoto gadan" (Special exhibition of the 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan: A bouquet of Edo-period Kyoto painters featured in Heian jinbutsushi), 1998.10.2--11.10

PUBLISHED:
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Manno bijutsukan (The Manno Art Museum), vol. 7 of Nikuhitsu ukiyoe taikan/Ukiyo-e paintings in Japanese Collections (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1996), pl. 67.

Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan, ed., Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan kaikan jusshunen kinen tokubetsu ten: Kyo no eshi wa hyakka ryoran: Heian jinbutsushi ni miru Edo jidai no Kyoto gadan (Special exhibition of the 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan: A bouquet of Edo- period Kyoto painters feautured in Heian jinbutsushi) (Kyoto: Kyoto Bunka Hakubutsukan, 1998), pl. 3-30.

Lot Essay

Nantei, born in Kyoto, studied under Maruyama Okyo (1733-1795) and worked with Okyo pupils such as Nagasawa Rosetsu (see lot 113) and Yamaguchi Soken (see lot 183) from the Kyowa to Bunka eras (1801-17). The poems about beauties and flowers are by Kan Sazan (1784-1827), Rai San'yo (1780-1832) and an unknown writer. Sazan, a poet and scholar in Bingo province, had a deep friendship with San'yo, who in turn helped Sazan run a private school. Shunsui, San'yo's father, wrote in his diary that Sazan owned some paintings by Nantei.

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