Landscape
ca. 1885–89
Medium
Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914
Accession Number
14.76.61.55
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Landscape** by Hashimoto Gahōca. 1885–89) is a delicate album leaf painted in ink and color on silk, measuring just 14 x 10 inches. intimate format, typical of Japanese albums, invited close personal contemplation, often shared among collectors or flipped through like pages in a book. Gahō, a master of the Kanō school tradition, captures a serene mountainous vista, evoking the timeless beauty of Japan's natural world amid misty peaks and layered depths. Created during Japan's Meiji period (1868–1912), a transformative era of modernization and Western influence, this work reflects Gahō's rol...