Okamoto Hosui
Koi and Mooring Post, 1920s-30s
Six-panel folding screen; ink, mineral colors and gold on paper
Size 52½ x 108¼ in. (133 x 275.5 cm)
T-4748
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Signed and sealed at right Hosui Okamoto Hosui studied painting in Kyoto under Kikuchi Hobun (1862–1918). Recurring subjects in his paintings are tigers, horses, deer, birds and flowers. His most...
Signed and sealed at right Hosui
Okamoto Hosui studied painting in Kyoto under Kikuchi Hobun (1862–1918). Recurring subjects in his paintings are tigers, horses, deer, birds and flowers. His most famous work is a set of fusuma (sliding doors) in the Mimakuri Shrine, Tsugemura, Nara Prefecture, depicting a pair of peacocks.
Hosui exhibited in Bunten 1, 9, 11, and 12 (1907–1918); in the Tokyo Taisho exhibition (1914). He was still active in 1927.
Okamoto Hosui studied painting in Kyoto under Kikuchi Hobun (1862–1918). Recurring subjects in his paintings are tigers, horses, deer, birds and flowers. His most famous work is a set of fusuma (sliding doors) in the Mimakuri Shrine, Tsugemura, Nara Prefecture, depicting a pair of peacocks.
Hosui exhibited in Bunten 1, 9, 11, and 12 (1907–1918); in the Tokyo Taisho exhibition (1914). He was still active in 1927.