Landscape in Light Colors

Painting by Aoki Shukuya Japanese
 Inscription by Murase Kotei Japanese

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In this detailed landscape by Aoki Shukuya, a path leads the viewer to the base of lofty mountains. Thatched huts stand alongside luxuriant trees, evoking a stroll in nature. A poem inscribed by Murase Kōtei expresses a desire to live as a hermit in the mountains, a recurring theme of poems added to literati paintings. It reads:

一帶赭圻枕碧流　奈何遁迹得茲遊
數椽茅屋危巖下　中有空房可僦不

A stretch of red embankment
girds the deep blue stream;
How can I conceal my traces
and enjoy wandering there?
Several thatched cottages are nestled
under the towering cliffs;
I wonder if there is
a vacant room to let.

Landscape in Light Colors, Painting by Aoki Shukuya (Japanese, 1737–1802), Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Japan

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Landscape in Light Colors, Painting by Aoki Shukuya (Japanese, 1737–1802), Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Japan
Landscape in Light Colors, Painting by Aoki Shukuya (Japanese, 1737–1802), Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Japan

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