Landscape with a Distant Temple

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
Object ID
149660

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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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Credit line
The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Provenance
?-1979: (Kinzen Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1979-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1979-present

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