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Kanô Eitai (..-1842)
Kanô
Nami, Wave
Signed: Kanô Kidô Eitai
Seals: Eitai, Tôbi uji
Technique: sumi on paper 101 x 28.2
Mounting: brown silk 176 x 30.2

Eitai was born in Kyoto as the son of the Yamato-e painter Tameyasu Reizei (1736-1816). Both he and his older brother Eigaku (1790-1867) were Kanô painters active mainly in Kyoto. Eitai is also known to have lived in Osaka for a time where he participated in the partition paintings of Osaka Castle.

Price: EUR 900 / USD 900