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(2) Shingei Geiami
(b 1431; d 1485). Connoisseur–curator and member of the Ami school of ink painting (suibokuga), son of (1) Shinno Noami. He served the eighth shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa (1436–90), as a painter, artistic adviser and curator. At the age of 50 Geiami painted Viewing a Waterfall (hanging scroll, ink and colours on paper, 1480; Tokyo, Nezu A. Mus.) in the angular, formal style of the Chinese Southern Song period (1127–1279) painter XIA GUI, as a farewell present to his student KENKO SHOKEI.
Part of the Ami family
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