A collection of ca. 60 brush and ink drawings and paintings, many of which are...
The sheets range from 640 x 1430 mm. to smaller. [Kyoto: 19th century].
The Yagis, father and son, were notable artists of 19th-century Japan. The father, Kiho (1806-76), was born in today’s Shiga Prefecture and lived mainly in Kyoto. He studied painting under Keibun Matsumura of the Shijo school and Giho Yamagata of the Kano school. Kiho excelled at figure painting and bird-and-flower painting and was the subject, along with his teachers, of a recent exhibition (2009) at the Nagahama Castle Historical Museum in Shiga (a catalogue was issued at the time). His work is found at the Kyoto Palace... More