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Mountain Market in Clearing Mist, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

瀟湘八景の内　山市晴嵐図

1788

Tani Bunchō 谷文晁

(Japanese, 1763–1841)
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Culture
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Medium
album leaf remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Measurements
Painting: 29.6 x 49.2 cm (11 5/8 x 19 3/8 in.); Mounted: 128.7 x 61.5 cm (50 11/16 x 24 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1980.188.1
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This painting was part of a set of album leaves representing the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme originating in Chinese poetry and painting that spread to both Korea and Japan. Southern China’s Xiao-Xiang area, where the mist-covered banks of the Xiang River created a complex landscape shifting like the moods and minds of people, captured the imaginations of generations of painters and calligraphers. Inscriptions on these works suggest that they were possibly ordered by newly prominent Japanese Confucian scholars.
A horizontally oriented ink and color painting depicts a mountain village nestled beneath craggy peaks. To our left, figures in small boats float near a weeping willow. Centered, traditional houses cluster at the mountains' base where robed people walk. Vertical columns of calligraphy and red seals occupy the upper left. Tall, rocky mountains rise in the distance, their forms suggested by fine ink lines and partially obscured by soft gray mist.

Mountain Market in Clearing Mist, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

1788

Tani Bunchō

(Japanese, 1763–1841)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)

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