was a
Japanese literati painter (''
nanga'' in Japanese). He originally trained as a
Confucian
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. Variously described as tradition, a philosophy, a Religious Confucianism, religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, ...
scholar, but spent the second half of his life as a literati and artist. The book ''Mountains of the Heart'' contains many of his most famous paintings.
References
* Addiss, Stephen, Kameda Bôsai’s Mountains of the Heart, ''
Daruma Magazine
''Daruma Magazine'' was a quarterly English language magazine published in Amagasaki, Japan and devoted to Japanese art and antiques. It was published by Takeguchi Momoko and edited by author Alistair Seton. It commenced publication in 1993. In ...
'', No. 60, 48-52, 2008.
* Addiss, Stephen, ''The world of Kameda Bôsai, the calligraphy, poetry, painting, and artistic circle of a Japanese literatus'', New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1984.
* Bôsai, Kameda ''Mountains of the Heart'', New York, G. Braziller, 2007.
External links
Bridge of dreams: the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Kameda Bōsai (see index)
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Japanese painters
1752 births
1826 deaths