was a Japanese literati painter ('' nanga'' in Japanese). He originally trained as a

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scholar, but spent the second half of his life as a literati and artist. The book ''Mountains of the Heart'' contains many of his most famous paintings.

References

* Addiss, Stephen, Kameda Bôsai’s Mountains of the Heart, '' Daruma Magazine'', No. 60, 48-52, 2008. * Addiss, Stephen, ''The world of Kameda Bôsai, the calligraphy, poetry, painting, and artistic circle of a Japanese literatus'', New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1984. * Bôsai, Kameda ''Mountains of the Heart'', New York, G. Braziller, 2007.

External links

Bridge of dreams: the Mary Griggs Burke collection of Japanese art
a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Kameda Bōsai (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Kameda, Bosai Japanese painters 1752 births 1826 deaths