Mori Ransai

• Died: 1801, Edo
• Japanese: 森 蘭斎 (Mori Ransai)

Mori Ransai was a mid-Edo period painter of the Nagasaki school.

He traveled to Nagasaki in 1760 to study painting, and there studied Qing-style birds and flowers painting under Noshiro Shûkô, a direct student Shen Nanpin.

Mori later entered the service of the Maeda clan of Kaga domain as a court painter. He also had a collection of his designs published as Ransai gafu.

He died in Edo in 1801.

References

• Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Megumi, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô 31 (2006), 223.