River Landscape with Willow Tree
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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 155 cm
- Width 38 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
Between gently curving mountain peaks, the view opens onto a tranquil river valley, where a small boat glides along while, in the background, the ridge of a roof shimmers among pines and, in the foreground, the overhanging branches of a willow tree line the bank and seem to sway gently in the wind.
The clear layering of near and distant pictorial planes creates a calm, almost floating sense of spatial depth, characteristic of the literati-influenced Japanese landscape painting tradition, giving the viewer the feeling of wandering through the valley themselves. A calligraphic inscription with a red seal accompanies the scene at the upper edge of the painting and rounds it off.
Created on paper in the Shôwa period and fitted with roller ends made of bone, this hand-painted unique work is a quiet, balanced example of classical Japanese river landscape painting with a fine sense of composition and space, offering lasting enjoyment. Motifs of this kind were considered a popular choice for the warmer season, when rivers and riverbanks stood at the center of many pictorial compositions.
