Watanabe Seitei
【Two carps under a waterfall】
Title
Two carps under a waterfall
Detail
Materials : ink on silk
wooden boxed
Size : W 40.5 × H 111 cm (Image) ・ W 53 × H 199.5 cm (Mount)
Condition: slightly stained on the image
mounted by patterned cloth of a seal
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.