Sail boats on Yodo River in Fushimi [right of a pair], around 1600 (restored in 1672)
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Ink and color on gilded paperexpand_more
The Mary Griggs Burke Endowment Fund established by the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundationexpand_more 2022.33.2
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Yodo River was an important thoroughfare to connect Kyoto with Osaka and was used for transporting goods as well as people, but no humans are depicted in this remarkably abstract view of the section flowing through Fushimi in Kyoto. Limiting the palette to gold, blue, and green tones, bamboo, clouds, mountains, and sail boats are the only elements, created on top of a layer of thin gold leaf. The artist created a clever composition because both sides of the pair connect and there is no fixed left or right placement; indeed, the pair could even be arranged in a circle for a person to sit in the middle and enjoy the continuous scene.
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- Sail boats on Yodo River in Fushimi [right of a pair]
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- 2022.33.2
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