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The Residence

Artwork · Okada Beisanjin · 1793 · handscroll

A record of a gathering by Okada Beisanjin (1744–1820), the Osaka rice broker — “Man of a Mountain of Rice” — whose house on the Yodo River was a meeting place for the literati of the Kansai: after a visit by the young Tanomura Chikuden in 1793 the guests take their leave through the rice fields, Beisanjin pointing the way, followed by Uragami Gyokudō and Rai Sanyō, the house open behind them on a moonlit night. 1 Mason 2005, pp. 335–336, fig. 391. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.