URAGAMI GYOKUDO (1745-1820) EDO PERIOD, 18TH/19TH CENTURY A Japanese kakemono (hanging scroll painting), ink on paper, depicting a mountainous river landscape, with three boats sailing in the distance, with an inscription translating as `a painting of a bay in the spring`, signed Gyokudo utsusu and sealed Takeuchi Kaijin no mago, 26cm x 21cm. Provenance: from the collection of Dr Oliver Impey (1936-2005), and Dr Jane (Mellanby) Impey (1938-2021), of Cumnor Place, Oxford. According to Oliver Impey`s archive, this painting was bought from Kegan Paul in July 1967. See Christie`s, New York, Japanese and Korean Art, 22nd September 2055, lot 159, for another painting by Gyokudo with a comparable composition. Uragami Gyokudo was a fascinating Edo period artist. He was a qin (Chinese zither) player, and an amateur painter. He specialised in landscapes rendered in large brush strokes and with abstract shapes, in a style reminiscent of Chinese literati painting.