A Professor at the Kyoto Prefecture School of Painting, be became a member of the Art Committee of the Imperial Household and a Member of the Imperial Art Academy in 1919. An important Japanese style painter, he specialized in Flower and Bird prints with realistic detail.

From Volume 2 (Summer) of Keinen Kacho Gafu (Bird and Flower Albums by Keinen)

Egrets and lotus

These albums have been described as 'One of the most splendid productions of the Meiji period." (Jack Hillier, The Art of the Japanese Book, page 968.)

First Edition, published by Nishimra Soemon, carved by Tanaka Hirokichi and printed by Mki Jinzaburo

Published c 1891 - 92

diptych framed (h) 51 x (w) 66 cm

$990