Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Medium
Six-panel folding screen, ink on paper
Dimensions
170 × 376 cm · image: 150 × 356 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee
Accession Number
1960.284
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About this artwork
Watanabe Shiko enjoyed a versatile and successful career, as well as a privileged upbringing, in Kyoto. His surviving work indicates a capacity to diligently study, master, and then interpret several painting techniques--each of which varies considerably in appearance. These byobu (folding screens), for instance, reflect training in the Kano school idiom that favored a monochromatic ink palette, vigorous brushwork, and traditional Chinese--rather than Japanese--subject matter. Shiko rendered thi...