Lot 2151: NAKABAYASHI CHIKKEI (1816-1867) Ryokuin chosen nozu (Listening to the Sound of the Water, Beneath the Shade of the Tree)

Ryokuin chosen nozu (Listening to the Sound of the Water, Beneath the Shade of the Tree)
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; signed Chikkei and sealed Seigyo and Shofu
44 x 14 1/4in (111.8 x 36.2cm)

Provenance: Asami Collecion?sold at auction, Shiga prefecture, 1933 December, no. 54 for 3,500 yen (an extraordinary price at the time.)

Nakabayashi Chikkei was a Nagoya painter celebrated for his precise brushwork and exceptional skill as a colorist. He studied under his father Nakabayashi Chikuto (1776-1853) and later Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856).