YOSA BUSON (1716-83) EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY A Japanese kakemono (hanging scroll painting), ink and colour on paper, depicting huts in a mountainous landscape, with woods spreading at the foot of vertiginous cliffs, three lines of calligraphy above, signed Sha Shunsei and with three seal marks, 130cm x 27cm. 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 the art historian Jack Hillier (1912-95) in March 1967. Hillier dedicated a section of his book `The Art of the Japanese Book`, vol. 2, to Yosa Buson. Impey added in his notes that this painting was sent from Japan by Dr Richard Lane (1926-2002), the American scholar and collector of Japanese Art based in Kyoto, whose collection of nearly 20,000 paintings is now housed at Honolulu Museum of Art.