Winter Landscape
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This piece was handmade by Matsumado Imai and was a 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 179 cm
- Width 48 cm
- Item Type Kakemono
- Jikusaki Sculpture
- Material Honshi Paper
- Period of Creation Shôwa (1926–1989)
- Technique Hand-Painted
- Unique Work Yes
- Wooden Box Yes
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Description
Dense snow lies over a small mountain village: thatched-roof houses hunker beneath the white burden, while a single traveler with a staff and blue cloak leaves his tracks through the snow-covered scenery. This Winter Landscape thrives on the atmospheric contrast between warm, earthy tones for the dwellings and cool, restrainedly washed white for snow and sky.
Winter depictions are among the popular motifs of Japanese landscape painting, as they convey stillness, contemplation, and the transience of the seasons in a particularly striking way. The small, almost lost figure of the traveler heightens the impression of vastness and seclusion, making the scene a quiet symbol of wintry solitude.
The kakemono is signed and sealed by Matsumado Imai, created in the Shôwa period. The work comes with its own wooden box. An atmospherically dense landscape painting, especially suited as tokonoma decoration for the cold season and, even beyond winter, evocative of Japanese mountain villages.
