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Figure Mooring a Boat

mid-1500s
(Japanese, active mid-1500s)
Measurements
Mounted: 109 x 36.2 cm (42 15/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
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Kannan is a little-known painter of the Kanto region. Close inspection of this quiet scene suggests that it represents the “night rain over Xiao and Xiang” scene from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. The style of the painting is similar to some works from Korea; as Japanese and Korean monk-painters traveled back and forth between one another’s monastic communities during the 1400s and 1500s, Kannan surely had the opportunity to consider incorporating Korean stylistic features into his work.
A hanging scroll with ink on beige paper depicts a vertical mountain landscape with soft gray washes and dark dabs of ink. Willow trees with spindly branches grow on a rocky shore in the lower foreground where a person stands near a moored boat. Steep peaks rise through thick mist in the background. A red square seal is featured on the right.

Figure Mooring a Boat

mid-1500s

Kannan

(Japanese, active mid-1500s)
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)

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