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Four Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
Four Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
瀟湘八景図
1788
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Tani Bunchō 谷文晁
(Japanese, 1763–1841)
(1615-1868)
Four album leaves from a set of eight remounted as hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
Each painting: 29.5 x 49 cm (11 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.); Each mounted: 129 x 67 cm (50 13/16 x 26 3/8 in.)
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1980.188
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These paintings were 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.
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