Hanging scroll; ink on silk, 76 by 25 cm _Mounts 157,5 by 48 cm Signed: Seisei Kiitsu 菁々其一.Square relief seal: Shukurin 祝琳 Suzuki Kiitsu was the leading painter of the “Edo Rimpa” movement of artists active in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Born in Edo the son of a dyer, Kiitsu began his career as an apprentice to Sakai Hōitsu (1761-1828) when he was eighteen. In the early 1800s Hōitsu had revived the style of Ogata Kōrin (1658-1716), mounting an exhibition of Kōrin’s paintings in 1815 to commemorate the centenary of his death. Hōitsu also produced...