By Mori Kansai (1814-1894), signed Kaei gan tsuchinoe-saru chushu utsusu, Heian Kansai Shiyo and sealed Kansai and Tachinaba shi, ShiyoJapan, Kyoto, dated 1848Painted with ink and watercolors on silk and mounted as a hanging scroll with a fine silk brocade frame. The painting depicts a very interesting composition of a harvest with large daikon radishes and a bunch of rice grain sheaves (inataba) dried on a rack. Two birds are squawking at each other on a shaft of bamboo which hangs from the rack.Signed to the lower right with a long inscription and two seals:嘉永元戊申仲秋寫、平安寛斎小容 Kaei gan tsuchinoe-saru chushu utsusu, Heian Kansai Shiyo[Painted by Kansai Shiyo (Mori Kansai, art name Shiyo), in mid-autumn of Kaei 1 (1848), Kyoto].The seals reading 寛斎 & 橘氏小容　“Kansai” and “Tachinaba shi, Shiyo”.With an inscription to the back of the scroll: 山水。図大坤（大根）”Sansui, zu Daikon”[Painting of Daikon radish in the earth] The character Kon is written with 坤 which means earth and the second hexagram of the I Ching diagram.SIZE (image) 55 x 133 cm and 69.4 x 207 cm (including mounting)Condition: Good condition with only minor wear and creases. One ivory roller end is lost.Provenance: German private collection.Mori Kansai (art name Shiyo, 1814-1894) was born at Hagi in Nagato Province and moved to Osaka in 1831 to study with Mori Tetsuzan, who later sent to Kyoto where he painted in the Maruyama-Shijo style. A staunch adherent of the imperial loyalist faction, he found himself in political difficulties in the 1860s but after the Meiji Restoration opened a successful private art academy and continued to paint in a wide range of styles. His works are often dated.