Portrait of Kimura Kenkadō

Artwork · Tani Bunchō · 1802 · kakemono · Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

Painted from memory by Tani Bunchō after the death of his friend Sonsai, the Osaka saké brewer whose fortune had been confiscated for brewing above his quota and who then kept a stationery shop and recorded the visits of his literati friends in his diary: not flattering, but a clear image of a talkative man with sharp, shrewd eyes. 1 Mason 2005, p. 341, fig. 398. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.