Mountain Landscape in Autumn and Winter, 16th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Ink, color, and gold on paperexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.28
Not on Viewexpand_more
This work—which would have been paired with a right-hand screen depicting spring and summer—is representative of folding screens painted from about 1500–1550 depicting Japanese landscapes of the four seasons in the so-called yamato-e (“Japanese painting”) style, in contrast to the Chinese-style ink paintings of nonnative scenery that were also prevalent at this time. This left-hand screen depicts a stream that meanders through the foreground from right to left, past a hill crowned by a profusion of autumn grasses—Eulalia grass, bellflower, bush clover, Patrinia—and toward another promontory, this one laden with snow and capped by a barren tree, bamboo grass, and Ardisia. A few faint lines indicate a patchwork of harvested rice fields in the middle ground. Farthest back are mountains topped with trees and snow, visually separated from the rest of the image by a bank of golden clouds.
Details
- Title
- Mountain Landscape in Autumn and Winter
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.28
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 50
- Curator Approved
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