A six-fold Japanese tea screen, originally one of a pair, painted on a silver mica ground in ink and colours with eighteen of the thirty-six poets.
Kagei (or Kakei) was an obscure Rimpa painter who rarely signed his work, a pupil of Ogata Kenzan who followed Korin stylistically. Sherman E. Lee in his "Japanese Decorative Style" observes of an other 36 poets painting that: "Certain astringent colours, notably a peculiar orange, a mossy green, and tart pink, seem to confirm the attribution of this screen to Kagei when we compare it with a signed screen with chrysanthemums and snowy hill."
Dimensions: length 72 inches, 183 cms; height 23 5/8 inches, 60 cms. Mid 19th century.

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