Antique Landscape with Sailboat
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This piece was a handmade one-of-a-kind work. It cannot be reordered and will never exist in this form again. The page stays online as part of our archive.
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Details about the sold piece
- Height 98 cm
- Width 67 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Wood
- Material Honshi Paper
- Period of Creation Edo (1603–1868)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
No longer available
Description
From the haze of a vast expanse of water, a gently curving mountain peak rises at the top of the composition, with wisps of mist dissolving at its base. On the right edge, a small sailboat glides across the water, while on the left, trees and rocks indicated with a few dark ink dabs mark the shoreline – a reduced landscape composition shaped by Zen-inspired ink painting.
The restrained, almost monochrome coloring and the generously left blank areas leave much room for the viewer's imagination and create a quiet, contemplative expanse. As a witness to its time from the late Edo or early Meiji period, the paper shows visible, age-related signs of wear, and in the upper area of the honshi there is a small defect – traces that give the work its distinctive, historically grown patina.
The landscape was painted by hand on paper, mounted within a border of paper and silk brocade with wooden jikusaki. For collectors of antiques, this kakemono is an authentic testament to traditional Japanese landscape painting.
