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A minimal landscape of hills and trees throughout, water in foreground, clouds and mist are rendered in shimmering gold.

A man standing in a long boat rows to the left near center of a placid landscape with water. Tall pine trees dot the shore with shorter pink blooming cherry trees growing below them. Rooftops and small houses are tucked into the landscape behind trees along the shore, dwarfed by the vastness of the natural space. Another long boat is docked by the shore in the lower left. Brush textures describe grasses, plants, and tree details. The large negative space suggests water, sky, and distance. Artist seal in lower left.　

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.226
People
Nakajima Raishō 中島来章, Japanese (Otsu 1796 - 1871)
Title
View of Uji
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
screen, painting
Date
19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340523

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Four-panel folding screen; ink, light color, and sprinkled gold on paper
Dimensions
image only: 155.7 x 257.6 cm (61 5/16 x 101 7/16 in.)
with mount: 171.8 x 274.2 cm (67 5/8 x 107 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: signature : Raishō hitsu
  • seal: Shin Raishō no in
  • seal: Shikei uji

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[YANAGI, Takashi, Kyoto (by 1983)], sold; to Robert and Betsy Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1983-2017), gift; to Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.226
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kodansha Publisher, Nihon byobue shusei: v. 10. Keibutsuga : meisho keibutsu (Tokyo, Japan, 1980), plate #47
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 168-169, cat. 167

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