Landscape 山水図

Object Details

• Artist

  Unknown

• Description

  A wintry landscape with a man on a donkey crossing a low bridge, followed by two servants, all wearing broad-brimmed hats; with a cascading stream flowing into foreground around a rocky promontory, with three bare trees and a high cliff to the right; moon in upper left; seal in upper right, all below seven inscriptions and nine seals on upper panel.

• Marks

  Seal in upper right and nine seals on upper panel.

• Inscriptions

  Daishū Shūchō 大周周奝1348-1419

  Ganchū Shūgaku 巌中周岳 1359-1428

  Seiin Shunjō 西胤俊承1358-1422

  Gyokuen Bonpō 玉碗梵芳1348-1420

  Meishuku Gensei 明叔玄晴 ?-1420

  Daigu Shōchi 大愚性智 ?-1439

  Kengan Genchū 謙巖原冲 ?-1421

  Kengan Genchū 謙巖原冲 ?-1421

• Provenance

  To 2007

  Yamazoe Tenkodo, Kyoto [1]

  From 2007 to 2018

  Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA, purchased from Yamazoe Tenkodo on November 1, 2007 [2]

  From 2018

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Per information provided by the Cowles. See Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection

  2018 Gift List for Freer/Sackler, object file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See Deed of Gift, object file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Cheney Cowles

  Mary Cowles

  Yamazoe Tenkodo 山添天香堂

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles

• Type

  Painting

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Cowles, Mary, Yamazoe Tenkodo, Cowles, Cheney

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Landscapes, Art, Muromachi period (1333 - 1573), Japanese Art

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings