Paintings of Nukina Kaioku in his latter life

Mountain ridge

Kaioku created this painting when he was 53 years old. Signed as Kaioku.

Brewing tea in the pinewood by a stream

This work was created when Kaioku was 61 years old. Signed as Kaikaku.

Heavenly hermit (heavenly bamboo and narcissus)

This picture was created when Kaioku was 64 years of age. Signed as Kaikaku.

Thatched cabins in a deep ravine

Created when Kaioku was 65 years of age. Signed as Kaioku.

The Lotus Peak (Mount Fuji)

This work was created when Kaioku visited Sakai at the age of 65. Signed as Kaikaku.

Picture of bamboo / Pentametrical quatrain on bamboo

This pair of hanging scrolls has bamboos as the theme of the picture and the poem. The picture scroll with the title “At the bank of the Wei River” was painted when Kaioku was 68 years old.

Picture of bamboo / Pentametrical quatrain on bamboo

This pair of hanging scrolls has bamboos as the theme of the picture and the poem. The pentametrical quatrain depicts the winter landscape with sparrows playing among the snow-bent bamboo trees.

Autumn landscape with lake and mountains (Nukina Kaioku) / Fishing alone at spring river(Hine Taizan)

When Kaioku was 67 years old, Hine Taizan started to study calligraphy under him. This pair of hanging scrolls shows a painting by Kaioku and an accompanying painting by Taizan.

Autumn landscape with lake and mountains (Nukina Kaioku) / Fishing alone at spring river(Hine Taizan)

When Kaioku was 67 years old, Hine Taizan started to study calligraphy under him. This pair of hanging scrolls shows a painting by Kaioku and an accompanying painting by Taizan.

Following Fei Qinghu’s landscape painting

Painted when Kaioku was 72 years of age. One of his earliest works with the name Sūō.

Following Sun Shichang’s Orchid and Bamboo

An ectype of a picture by Sun Shichang, a painter in Ching dynasty. This work might be created when he started to use the name Sūō at the age of 72.

Landscape with mountains, lake, and willows

Hine Taizan, a Kaioku’s pupil, made a picture in a similar composition in 1852. So, if this Kaioku’s picture was painted around the same time, it might be when he was 75 years of age.

Snowy mountains (Ten different landscapes)

Made when Kaioku was 78 years of age. Signed as Sūō. Ten pictures with different seasons, hours, or weathers are put together in a single album.

Wetting a line on a small boat (Ten different landscapes)

Made when Kaioku was 78 years of age. Signed as Sūō. Ten pictures with different seasons, hours, or weathers are put together in a single album.

Paulownia trees after the rain (Ten different landscapes)

Made when Kaioku was 78 years of age. Signed as Sūō. Ten pictures with different seasons, hours, or weathers are put together in a single album.

Three friends of Winter (Pine, Bamboo and Plum)

Painted when Kaioku was 80 years of age. Signed as Sūō.

Landscape with mountains, river, lake, and fishing boats

Created when Kaioku was 82 years of age. Signed as Sūō.

Waterfall

The large hanging scroll brings the refreshing atmosphere from the mountains. Signed as Sūō.

Heptametrical quatrain on willows at the West Lake (Nukina Kaioku) / Fishing in the shadow of willows (Hine Taizan)

This pair of hanging scrolls shows a poem by Kaioku and the accompaniment painting by Hine Taizan that was created in the summer of 1864, the year after Kaioku’s death.

Heptametrical quatrain on willows at the West Lake (Nukina Kaioku) / Fishing in the shadow of willows (Hine Taizan)

This pair of hanging scrolls shows a poem by Kaioku and the accompaniment painting by Hine Taizan that was created in the summer of 1864, the year after Kaioku’s death.