Snowy Landscape 1824 Takahashi Shei This work by the Nanga painter Takahashi Shei shows a solitary fisherman casting his pole near a snowy embankment lined with budding plum trees. The image is accompanied by a quatrain: The tattered bamboo hat is all covered with snow.In a lone boat is an old fisherman.Gazing at the empty woods at sunset,he seems tied down in the frozen stream.(translated by Miyeko Murase and Shi-yee Liu)According to Shei's signature, it was executed in 1824 at the residence of Tanomura Chikuden (1777-1835), a leading literati painter and fellow native of Bungo Province (modern-day Oita Prefecture) on the far western island of Kysh who was Shei's first painting teacher, making this an especially early work by the artist.Shei first encountered Chikuden in 1822 when the master visited Shei's hometown of Kitsuki from Kyoto. Soon thereafter, Shei took Chikuden as a teacher and returned with him to Kyoto, where he was quickly recognized as one of Chikuden's most p
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