Nanga (Buson)
LandscapeSigned: Kyûro saku
Seals: Jibin, Baitei
Technique: colours on silk 128.2 x 28.2
Mounting: brass damask 189 x 41.2
Condition: very good
Ki Baitei became a painter as well as a haiku poet. It is not clear where he was born, but as a youth he sold fans in Kyoto, which he painted himself. By his early thirties he seems to have been employed in Kyoto artisan workshops. In the mid 1770s he came to attention of Yosa Buson (1716-1783) while working in a brocade manufacturing company, of which the owner was acquainted with Buson.
Baitei studied with Buson until the early 1780s and like Go Shun he was a live-in student. He moved to Ôtsu in 1783, but he had to return soon after to attend Buson in his fatal illness. He joined Go Shun to settle the estate in favour of the dowry of Buson’s daughter. Back in Ôtsu Baitei became a successful artist with enough students to support him. He sold well and lived a prosperous life with his wife Osode, also a haiku poet.
Reference:
Ôtsu 2008
Roberts p. 8
Rosenfield b43
French '74 p.31-32
Kyoto '98 p. 276
Price: SOLD
