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SUZUKI NANREI 鈴木南嶺 (1775–1844) Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century
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SUZUKI NANREI 鈴木南嶺 (1775–1844)
Spiny Lobster
Kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink and colours on paper in a narrow silk mount: An ebi (spiny lobster), with a poem above; signed Nanrei and sealed; with a modern wood storage box and a cardboard slipcase
Overall: 176 × 31.5cm (69 1/4 × 12 3/8in); image: 99.5 × 29cm (39 1/4 × 11 3/8in) (2).
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Provenance
Shirley Day Ltd, London, 1991
A lifelong Edokko or native of Edo (the shogun's capital city), Suzuki Nanrei studied there under Watanabe Nangaku, a pupil of the eighteenth-century Kyoto painting titan Maruyama Ōkyo. He also visited Kyoto (the imperial capital) to learn from leading masters of Shijō naturalism including Okamoto Toyohiko (see Lot 45) and, along with Ōnishi Chinnen (see Lot 6) and Shibata Zeshin (see Lot 57), went on to lay the foundations of the Edo Shijō style.














