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Japan: Portrait of the painter Kameda Bohsai (1752-1826). Tani Bunchō (1763-1841)

Japan: Portrait of the painter Kameda Bohsai (1752-1826). Tani Bunchō (1763-1841)

Kameda Bōsai (亀田鵬斎, 1752–1826) was a Japanese literati painter (nanga in Japanese). He originally trained as a Confucian scholar, but spent the second half of his life as a literati and artist. The book 'Mountains of the Heart' contains many of his most famous paintings.

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