Yoshimura Kokei
【3 hanging scrolls of Cranes, a Turtle and Jurojin】
Title
3 hanging scrolls of Cranes, a Turtle and Jurojin
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on silk
wooden boxed (signed by Tachibana Nanryo)
Size : W 35.5 × H 94 cm (Each Image) ・ W 47 × H 187 cm (Each Mount)
Condition: stained, slightly creased / slightly damaged on the box
Artist History
The painter Yoshimura Kokei(1769–1836)was born in Kyoto and one of Maruyama Okyo's ten famous pupils. Kokei was good at flower-bird painting and worked for Nishi Honganji Temple.