KONO BAIREI (1844-95) WATANABE NANGAKU (1767-1813) SEKI CHONEN (1813-77) EDO AND MEIJI, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY A Japanese kakemono (hanging scroll painting), ink and colour on paper, depicting a minogame on a rocky outcrop, signed Bairei and with a red seal mark, 120cm x 33cm; another painting depicting three tortoises in a stream, signed and with two red seal marks for Watanabe Nangaku; and another kakemono, ink and colour on silk, with turtles, pines and cranes, inscribed `Painted in the spring, in the year of Tsuchinoto-tori` (1849), signed and sealed Chonen, 167cm x 40cm. (4) 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, the first painting was purchased at Glendining.