Kosei Nabatame不明~不明 那波多目煌星

NABATAME Kosei was a Japanese-style painter active in Nakaminato (now Hitachinaka) in Ibaraki Prefecture, and the father of the prominent nihonga painter Nabatame Koichi. He trained under Kimura Buzan and Nakamura Gakuryo, two leading figures of the Japan Art Institute (Nihon Bijutsuin), and worked in the traditional nihonga idiom. He repeatedly submitted works to the Inten exhibition but is said to have suffered roughly twenty years of rejections, an experience that deeply shaped his son Koichi's artistic outlook. Although he was honored with a special invitee status, reliable records of his birth and death years and major works are scarce.