Rainy Mountain Landscape
Sold – no longer available
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 188 cm
- Width 49 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Bone
- Material Honshi Paper
- Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
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Description
Through fine rain, this kakemono reveals an evocative mountain landscape: a traveler with an umbrella and conical hat crosses a simple wooden bridge, while in the background wisps of mist blur the contours of the mountains. Pines and a small boat on the shore complete the tranquil composition, rendered in muted tones of gray and brown.
The loose, almost sketch-like brushwork recalls the ink painting of literary scholars (Nanga) and, despite its economy of strokes, conveys a dense, almost tangible atmosphere of weather. At the lower edge of the image a signature with a red seal can be seen, which attributes the work to the Shôwa period (1926–1989).
The finial at the end of the roller rods, called jikusaki, is made of bone here and rounds off the unobtrusively elegant overall impression of this kakemono, Rainy Mountain Landscape.
