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Calm scene of three mountains with atmosphere in between painted in gradations of black ink in a minimal composition.

Light clouds and mist float between the mountains. Small buildings are nestled at bottom near the water’s edge. Light lines define water movement. Small groups of people walk along shore or sit in boats, their size dwarfed by the mountains. A walking bridge connects the opposite end land masses near center bottom, yet fog covers the bridge’s center. A small land mass in lower bottom left contains trees, a house, and vertical temple. Textures define the tree and plant diversity of the place. There’s no defined light source, therefore no highlights or shadows.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.354
People
Takada Keiho 高田敬輔, Japanese (omi province 1674 - 1755)
Title
View of West Lake
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
screen, painting
Date
1735–42
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340466

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Six-panel folding screen; ink on paper
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 153.4 × W. 356 cm (60 3/8 × 140 3/16 in.)
overall with mount: H. 171.3 × W. 374 cm (67 7/16 × 147 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: Signature: Hokkyo Keiho Zu
  • seal: Seal(s): "Fujiwara-shi" (upper); "Keiho no In" (lower)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Koichi Yanagi, Kokon, Inc., (2011)], sold; to Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (2011-2018), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.354
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kit Brooks, "'A School unto Himself'? The Formation of Soga Shohaku (1730-81), Orientations (September 2015), vol. 46, no. 6, p. 106, fig. 3
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 11-112, cat. 105

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