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Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Calligrapher Formerly attributed to Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗 Japanese
late 18th century
Not on view
This screen comprises a collage of Japanese poems and sketchlike ink-wash paintings on the theme of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang brushed in the style of the famous early seventeenth-century calligrapher and man of letters Shōkadō Shōjō. The sheets of calligraphy with painting are underlaid by Maruyama Ōkyo's autumn suzuki grasses rendered in gold pigment. This work shows how the Chinese Northern Song literati theme of place and political exile was transformed into a Japanese landscape theme of seasonal reference and atmosphere.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers
  • Artist: Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙 (Japanese, 1733–1795)
  • Calligrapher: Formerly attributed to Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗 (Japanese, 1584?–1639)
  • Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
  • Date: late 18th century
  • Culture: Japan
  • Medium: Eight sheets pasted to an eight-panel folding screen; ink on paper; gold on paper
  • Dimensions: 43 in. × 10 ft. 9 in. (109.2 × 327.7 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. H. F. Stone and Mrs. Leon Durand Bonnet, 1956
  • Object Number: 56.116
  • Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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