Mountain Landscape
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 28 1/8 × 12 1/2 in. (71.4 × 31.8 cm) Overall with mounting: 60 1/16 × 17 1/8 in. (152.5 × 43.5 cm) Overall with knobs: 60 1/16 × 18 3/4 in. (152.5 × 47.7 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
Accession Number
36.100.10
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Gakuo Zokyu · 1500–1500
Gakuō Zōkyū (岳翁蔵丘) was a Japanese Zen monk and painter active in the late Muromachi period, flourishing around 1482 to 1514 (with some sources extending his activity to circa 1541). His birth and death dates remain unknown, as do details of his early life and family origins, but he is closely associated with the Tōfuku-ji temple in Kyoto. Many of his surviving works bear inscriptions or praise fro...