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Evening Snow Blending River and Sky, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

瀟湘八景の内　江天暮雪図

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
Image: 29.5 x 49 cm (11 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.); Overall: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1980.188.2
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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 winter landscape. In the foreground, three figures on horseback and one on foot traverse a path flanked by tan, craggy cliffs and spindly trees with orange-brown dashes as leaves. A vast, gray expanse of water cuts across the scene, leading to white snow-capped peaks. Vertical columns of black calligraphy and red seals punctuate the upper sky, while small, pale boats drift across the misty surface.

Evening Snow Blending River and Sky, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

1788

Tani Bunchō

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

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