Landscape
Object Details
- Label
- During the Edo period (1615-1868) no Japanese artist exceeded Shohaku in the ability to endow scenes of nature with an energy that seemed on the verge of exploding from the painting's two-dimensional surface.
- The scene is an unusually powerful rendition of a standard Chinese subject: a scholar journeying to seek the company of kindred spirits in their mountain retreat. Here, a lone figure on a donkey crosses a bridge at the base of a waterfall. He is followed at a distance by a servant who travels on foot, carrying his master's lute.
- Tiny human forms are overwhelmed by the majestic and portentous quality of nature-perhaps the true subject of this painting.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Japanese Arts in the Edo Period: 1615-1868, part 2 (March 8 to October 19, 2008)
- Beyond the Legacy--Anniversary Acquisitions of the Freer Gallery of Art (October 11, 1998 to April 11, 1999)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Harold P. Stern Memorial Fund
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 1760
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1995.18
- Artist
- Soga Shohaku (1730-1781)
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Ink on paper mounted on wood core
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 182.3 x 277.5 cm (71 3/4 x 109 1/4 in)
- Origin
- Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- landscape
- donkey
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- waterfall
- scholar
- Japan
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1995.18
