Nihonga (Nanga)
Watching boats on the water at nightSigned: Sekitai rôjin shiga
Seals: Shû in & Sekitai (bottom)
Technique: sumi on paper 131,8 x 34
Date: May 1905
Mounting: brown silk 212 x 48,2
Condition: very good
白雪長年屋 / 夕陽橫老舲 / 煙生水楊柳 / 欸乃一聲青。
Snow on the roofs the whole year long.
The evening sun slants across old passenger boats.
The willows along the water loom out of the mist.
The sound of oars behind the verdure.
Nagasaka Sekitai (Shûni) was a medical doctor and known as a calligrapher and a poet of Chinese poetry. He studied with Mori Shuntô (1819-1889) and became one of his best pupils (the four heavenly kings).
In 1875 he moved to Tokyo starting as a doctor and working in the house where Yanagawa Seigan (1781-1858) once lived.
Reference:
Araki p. 483
Price: EUR 650 / USD 806
