Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape with a Distant Temple
- Date
- 1600s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A traveler has presumably descended from the distant temple compound that consists of several buildings linked together by a winding trail lined with steps. The highest point in the compound is occupied by the most sacred structure in Buddhist temple architecture: a mulitroofed pagoda. This rugged landscape, with its towering craggy peaks, pine forests, and river, typifies the idealized image of religious sanctuary in East Asian medieval ink painting. This painter emulated the style of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506) a Japanese artist who traveled to China to study painting.
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