(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

• Shingei Geiami
  • Ami
  • Connoisseurship, §3: Japan
  • Japan, §XIX, 2: Patronage, 13th–16th centuries
  • Sesson Shukei, §1: Before c 1560
  • patrons and collectors
    • Kenko Shokei
  • works
    • Japan, §VI, 4(iii)(g): Ink painting in the Muromachi period: Post-Shubun schools
    • Japan, §XXII, 1: Connoisseurship and historiography: Painting contests and catalogues