Nanga
The endless red mountainsSigned: Shinten'ô
Seals: Kii Ken, Shinten'ô, Nisui Monjin
Technique: sumi on paper 172 x 45.3
Mounting: yellow raw silk 199 x 57
Box: inscribed
Condition: good
浅山無盡 The endless red mountains
Seiitsu (Shinten'ô) was born in Aichi province as the second son of a well-off and intellectual farmers family. In Osaka he studied calligraphy with Shinozaki Shôchiku (1781-1851). After his fathers death in 1848 he had to prolong his studies at the local temple school. After the death of his younger brother his uncle sponsored his Confucian studies with Saitô Setsudô (1792-1865) for three years. Thereafter he studied Chinese literature with Yanagawa Seigan (1781-1858) and Umeda Unpin (1825-1865). Here he met with the loyalists Rai Miisaburô and Fujimoto Tesseki (1817-1863) and became friends. To avoid charges from the Bakufu he started to travel. After the restoration he accompanied emperor Meiji to Tokyo and became a civil servant and a governor for several cities. Before his fiftieth birthday he retired to Kyoto to devote his time to art. From his new luxurious villa in Arashima he kept in contact with Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924) and a number of friends.
Reference:
Addiss 1993
Kato ‘98 first chapter
Berry '01 p. 157-159
Hempel '98 pp. 169-170
Araki p. 1357
Price: EUR 750 / USD 930
