Mountain Landscape with Boat in Fog
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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 190 cm
- Width 60 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Sculpture
- Material Honshi Silk
- Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
- Wooden Box Yes
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Description
Rugged mountain ranges emerge in fine ink tones, gradually blurring into haze toward the top. Gnarled pines grow between moss-covered rocky outcrops, while at the lower edge of the image a small boat moves quietly across the water – a still, almost meditative scene from classical landscape painting that invites long contemplation.
The depiction is rendered entirely in monochrome ink on silk, with fine gradations from light gray to deep black that create depth and atmosphere. The painter deliberately dispenses with color, letting the nuances of the ink alone convey the mood of mist, rock, and water. Signature and red seal at the lower edge of the image attribute the work to the Shōwa period.
The kakemono is delivered in a wooden box signed by the artist (tomobako), mounted with a gold-colored border and rollers made of plastic. A restrained, poetic landscape painting for lovers of classical ink painting, "Mountain Landscape with Boat in Fog" fits unobtrusively into any room and invites quiet contemplation.
