… is for Mokubei

Aoki Mokubei (1767-1833)
“Landscape” 1821

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
26.8 x 18.9 cm. (10 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)

Inscription:
“During the eleventh lunar month, winter of the year 1821, painted within the Toki Tei (‘potting and moulding pavilion’) at the behest of Kin. Mokubei.”

Artist’s seals: Two, illegible

Published: Sasaki Kozo; Nihon Bijutsu Kaiga Zenshu (Tokyo: Shuisha, 1980), vol. 21: Mokubei to Chikuden, color pl. 2. Bunjinga Suihen (Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, 1979), vol. 16: Chikuden to Mokubei, color pl. 6.