Property from a private collection, Northern California AFTER KANO MOTONOBU (1476-1559)The Immortal Gama Sennin Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th century A hanging scroll brushed in ink on paper of the Daoist immortal Gama Sennin (in Chinese Liu Hai), the "toad hermit," animatedly dangling something attached to a string while a toad leaps up to snatch it, a bamboo forest in the background, sealed with the spurious seal Motonobu , the colophon signed Ryūfuku'in nushi Kyūō san and impressed with a seal With a double wood storage box 13 x 18 1/4in (33 x 46.3cm) Kyūō (d. 1534) was the head priest of Ryūfuku'in, a subtemple of the Rinzai Zen temple Daitokuji in Kyoto.