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Placid landscape scene with a few houses near middle bottom as a mountain elevates upward toward the right. 　

Strong ink lines define the rocky landscape, pine trees, and shrub textures. Gentle lines suggest a body of water from right. A house on the water’s edge near middle-left, faces the viewer with a wide window revealing two people, lightly drawn, seated opposite each other. A few people walk the dirt path on right carrying things, they’re small compared to the vastness of the landscape. A flowing waterfall in the distant middle right cascades into a bubbling stream in lower right below the path. Distant hills blend into rocky section. The vast negative space is rendered in gold leaf.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.224
People
Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興 (1683 - 1755)
Title
Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, screen
Date
early to mid-18th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340552

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold leaf on paper
Technique
Aquatint
Dimensions
painting proper, each panel: H. 166.5 × W. 64 cm (65 9/16 × 25 3/16 in.)
overall width when spread flat: W. 384 cm (151 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[HOSOMI Minoru, Osaka, Japan (by 1989)], sold; to Robert and Betsy Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1989-2017), 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
2017.224
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Yamane Yūzō, Rinpa kaiga zenshu: vol. IV Korin ha II, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), p. 272, #138
  • Kobayashi Tadashi, Rinpa [Rimpa Paintings] vol. III : Landscape, Birds and Animals, Shikosha Publishing Co. (Kyoto, Japan, 1991), plate 74
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 196-197, cat. 196

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/09/2017 - 12/07/2017; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/10/2022 - 06/04/2023

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