SCROLL PAINTING NEHANZU. Japan. Meiji period. Wet india ink and light colour on yellowy paper. So-called Nehanzu (Picture of Nirvana). In a circle of light lies Shakyamuni on a kind of platform, surrounded by his grieving students, lateral the two Kongorikishi (guard figures). Overhead inscription 'Over Nirvana', sign.: Man (Mitsu) kawa & 2 red, unread seals. Thereunder in fast, light india ink clouds, on whiche his student Anuruddha and Mahamaya, his mother, approach with two servants with the pouch that contains a medicine against fungal poisoning, that however hangs unused over the Sala-Tree. Overhead of him and below all kinds of grieving animals. Sign.: Kawanabe Gy?sai & two seals. Kawanabe Gy?sai, a famous, excentric painter, son of a Samurai, who learned under Utagawa Kuniyoshi as a boy, later joined the Kan?-School, before he worked as an independent artist. 1831-1889. He exhibited among others at the International Exhibitions in Vienna 1873 and 1883 in Paris. 102.5 x 30cm. Condition A/B. Supplement: Wooden box with inscription: Nehan no zu (Picture of Nirvana) and Gyosai hitsu.