Landscape (c. 1700–1751): Art, History and Details

Landscape (c. 1700–1751) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Gion Nankai (Japanese, 1677–1751).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A teacher of Confucian ethics, the Chinese philosophical system focused on social harmony and familial responsibility, Gion Nankai was also a painter. Ike Taiga (池大雅) (1723–1776) was among his students. Nankai inscribed this landscape with one of 24 poems for painting subjects composed by the scholar and painter Tang Yin (唐寅) (Chinese, 1470–1524). It reads as follows: The mountain pavilion is desolate, visitors are rare. Mud patches the brushwood gate; leaves patch my clothes. Rising not from the bamboo bed, my head like snow. Already without intent, I abandon questions of Zen.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape
• Date: c. 1700–1751
• Creator attribution: Gion Nankai (Japanese, 1677–1751)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
• Dimensions: Painting: 102.2 x 55.2 cm (40 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.); Mounted: 189.9 x 67.9 cm (74 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1980.81

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.

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