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Mandarinentenpaar | Matsumura Keibun 松村景文 | 1779-1843 Lotus Given the wide variety ofMatsumura Keibun is an outstanding painter in Kyoto in the 19th century. His older half brother Goshun founded the Shj school together with the painter genius Maruyama ky (1733 1795), whose institution produced highly talented painters in Kyoto for a whole century. Keibun was very productive, and his works can still be found in the domestic art trade today. The astonishing thing, however, is that despite his productivity, he actually only created