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
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...