HARUKI NANKO (1759–1839) Kakejiku in ink and colour on gold-ground paper, depicting a mountain landscape featuring thatched cottages amongst trees and a stream. Signed ‘Nanko’ in the top left-hand corner. With an apocryphal inscription on the reverse: ‘Painted by Nanko, property of Jochiku’. (Folds and tears, soiling, wear). Japan, Edo period, late 18th–early 19th centuries. A KAKEJIKU, INK AND COLOURS ON GOLD PAPER, LANDSCAPE BY HARUKI NANKO, JAPAN, EDO PERIOD, LATE 18TH–EARLY 19TH CENTURIES. DIM. 24 X 39.5 CM (9 7/16 X 15 9/16 IN.) About the artist: a painter of the Nanga school, he studied in Nagasaki, where he learnt the Chinese style. In his day, he was as famous as a Nanga painter as Tani Bunchô.