Spring Sunrise at Mount Penglai

1881

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This idealized spring scene, rendered in the blue-green palette of traditional Chinese landscape paintings, vividly imagines a sanctuary for the literati. A luxurious Chinese-style villa sits on the water’s edge at the foot of verdant mountains. Two scholarly figures engage in conversation within its main hall, while servants perform tasks on the grounds—one feeding a crane and another sweeping. The accompanying poem describes this setting as the legendary Mount Penglai, the island of the immortals in Chinese mythology.

Tanomura Chokunyū was a Kyoto-based literati painter and disciple of Tanomura Chikuden (1777–1835). He served as the founding president of the Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting (now Kyoto City University of Arts).

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田能村直入筆　蓬莱春旭図
Title: Spring Sunrise at Mount Penglai
Artist: Tanomura Chokunyū (Japanese, 1814–1907)
Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
Date: 1881
Culture: Japan
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: Image: 58 7/8 × 25 7/8 in. (149.5 × 65.8 cm)
Overall with mounting: 86 13/16 × 32 3/16 in. (220.5 × 81.8 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019
Object Number: 2019.420.34
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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