Landscape with Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
Unknown Artist
late 1500s–early 1600s
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper
Dimensions
painting: 129.5 × 350.8 cm · framed: 145.5 × 366.8 × 62.5 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
Accession Number
2015.483
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This screen is from a separated pair depicting the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a Chinese painting and poetry theme. Read in the manner customary for Japan, from right to left, the motifs here are “Evening Bell from a Mist-Shrouded Temple,” “Wild Geese Descending to a Sandbar,” “Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village,” and “Mountain Market in Clearing Mist.” The “crab-claw” style of the trees, in which the branches resemble the curved claws of a crab, and the stippling effect indicate a familiarity wi...