Landscape

Object Details

• Artist

  Hoashi Kyou 帆足杏雨 (1810-1884)

• Description

  Steep mountains are painted with swift, dry brush strokes. On bank in foreground, a pair of cranes, emblems of longevity, are offered food from a basket. A bridge disappears behind a cliff to the right, and a path leads back toward a secluded residence at the base of the distant mountains.

  In box, inscription on outside of lid.

• Inscriptions

  1. (Ann Yonemura, excerpted from exhibition label, "Japanese Scholar-Painters," 1985) The painter, Hoashi Kyou, has written a brief inscription in the upper left corner of the painting, giving a date corresponding to the second month of 1863.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Nanga School Painting (November 7, 1985 to March 9, 1987)

  Japanese Scholar-Painters (November 7, 1985 to November 26, 1986)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Painting

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• Name

  Hoashi, Kyou

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Mountains, Bridges, Landscapes, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Men, Japanese Art, Crane, Kakemono

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings