NANGA SCHOOL A kakejiku in ink and light colours on paper, depicting a lively landscape featuring a pavilion and a high mountain, with a scholar on a bridge in the foreground. Signed in the top right-hand corner: Nanryô rôjin shiga, ‘painting and poem by the old Nanryô’; the poem reflects on the ‘vulgarity of the floating world’. (Minor soiling, foxing and slight creases). Japan, 19th century. A KAKEJIKU, INK AND COLOURS ON PAPER, A NANGA SCHOOL LANDSCAPE, SIGNED NANRYÔ, JAPAN, 19TH CENTURY. DIM. 134 X 33 CM (52 3/4 X 13 IN.) Note The Nanga school draws inspiration from Chinese literati painting of the Ming and Qing dynasties.