Landscape
mid-1500s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 104.7 × 48.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-115245
The large red tripod-shaped seal on this painting is that of Kano Motonobu, head of the Kano school atelier in Kyoto that served the shogun. Gesshū Jukei, a longtime resident of the Zen temple Kenninji in Kyoto, inscribed the poem. The two are known to have worked together on at least one other occasion. The poem describes an intimate meeting of dear friends, a suitable theme for a work that was likely given as a gift to an esteemed associate, perhaps weary of the politics of life in the capital. In either fine weather or during the rainy season the mountain’s color is pale. A friend visits, …
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of George Gund III, 2015.518
Registry history
- mid-1500s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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