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Gion Nankai

(b Kii Province [now Wakayama Prefecture], 1677; d Kii Province, 1751). Japanese painter, calligrapher and poet. Along with Sakaki Hyakusen and Yanagisawa Kien, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of literati painting (Bunjinga or Nanga; see JAPAN,

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