WATANABE SHOKA (1835-87) RENZAN GANTOKU (1805-59) KOKUSEN (ACT. C.1800), AND OTHERS MEIJI ERA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY A Japanese kakemono (hanging scroll painting), ink on paper, depicting Mount Fuji towering above wooded hills, signed and with two red seal marks for Gantoku, 133cm x 56cm; another kakemono in ink and colour on paper of a mountainous river landscape, with a scholar in a pavilion by a bridge in the foreground, signed Kokusen and sealed Ryu cho, 114cm x 27cm; a third depicting a landscape with pine trees, signed Shoka dojin and sealed Watanabe kai in and Watanabe shokyo, dated 1874; the fourth a depiction of an extensive snowy landscape, inscribed `A painting of auspicious snow anticipating the spring`, signed Tian Xiong and possibly Chinese, together with another landscape painting. (5) 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, both the Fuji painting and the Kokusen one were purchased at Glendining.