Watanabe Shikō, Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Hammer, 1968.267 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Watanabe Shikō

Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

1700s

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
Six-panel folding screen, ink on paper
Dimensions
150 × 356 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-112970

Watanabe Shiko, an Edo period painter who combined Kano school style with Rimpa style, re-created the Xiao and the Xiang rivers on a pair of eight-panel screens. For this composition, he followed the Kano school’s sense of space, adapted from miniature copying paintings (shukuzu) by the Japanese artist Kano Tanyu. Watanabe revised the typical representations of the Xiao and the Xiang rivers by rendering the theme Wild Geese Descending to Sandbar on the right screen and Evening Bell from Mist-Shrouded Temple on the left screen. He depicted simple motifs—moon, boat, geese, and temple—to suggest…

Provenance

Hammer, 1968.267

Registry history

  • 1700s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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