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Peaceful landscape scene with a few houses near middle bottom as hills roll upward toward the left.

A Japanese house on low pillars nestled in the distance sits on the water as two men in a boat come close to its entrance where another person leans forward toward them. Another man in a simple sailboat approaches land facing left. A few other small boats are nestled in where land meets water. A cluster of old weeping cherry trees bloom in lower left bottom at land’s edge. Gentle lines suggest a body of water flowing from the right. Ink wash defines the shape of the hills in the distance. The vast negative space is rendered in gold leaf.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.224.2
People
Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興 (1683 - 1755)
Title
Landscape (left screen)
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/357601

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Left screen of a pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold leaf on paper.
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
2017.224.2
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, 12/10/2022 - 06/04/2023

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Verification Level

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