Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) / early 1500s
Landscape
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Landscape as painting (Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) · early 1500s).
Another part of this composition survives in Kyushu, Japan.
A CLOSER LOOK
The museum identifies this painting as hanging scroll; ink on paper and credits Sōami (Japanese, d. 1525).
The museum's collection notes: Kyoto-based painter Sōami adapted the small-format Chinese album leaf and handscroll painting compositions belonging to the Ashikaga shogunate to the large-scale paintings he created for residences and Buddhist temples. As curator of the shogunal collection, Sōami would have carefully examined its Southern Song and Yuan dynasty Chinese paintings, gaining specialized knowledge of a variety of brush modes, including the soft style used for this painting. The scene is part of a continuous landscape once mounted in the folding screen format. Removed from the screen, this section of the painting was cut down, given new backing papers and a textile
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