Lakeside Retreat
Unknown Artist
late 1400s–early 1500s
Medium
hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
118.8 × 43.4 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
Accession Number
2015.514
About this artwork
This scroll makes clear the rich visual diversity of ink painting outside metropolitan Kyoto. These Kanto region paintings are generous in size, as well as in their visions of imagined foreign scenery. They are similarly composed: foreground expanses of water give way to clouds and bands of mist in middle distance, concealing the bases of the towering peaks, marking the transition in compositional space in both vertical and far distances. These mountain forms dominate the landscape vision as the...