Watanabe Seitei
【Little birds under the moon】
Title
Little birds under the moon
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on silk
wooden boxed (signed by painter / double)
Size : W 41 × H 112.5 cm (Image) ・ W 55.5 × H 201 cm (Mount)
Condition: slightly stained on the image
exhibit card in "The Art & Natural History museum of SADO"
Artist History
Watanabe Seitei (1852-1918) was a Japanese painter from the end of the Edo period to the Taisho period. He studied under Kikuchi Yosai, and was especially skilled at painting kachōga (flower-and-bird painting). He created his own style by incorporating Western-style expression. He won a bronze medal for exhibiting at the Paris world expo in 1878, and a silver medal at the Amsterdam world expo in 1883, earning him high praise not only in Japan but also in Europe and the United States.