Object Details
- Description
- Steep mountains are painted with swift, dry brush strokes. On bank in foreground, a pair of cranes, emblems of longevity, are offered food from a basket. A bridge disappears behind a cliff to the right, and a path leads back toward a secluded residence at the base of the distant mountains.
- In box, inscription on outside of lid.
- Inscriptions
- 1. (Ann Yonemura, excerpted from exhibition label, "Japanese Scholar-Painters," 1985) The painter, Hoashi Kyou, has written a brief inscription in the upper left corner of the painting, giving a date corresponding to the second month of 1863.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Japanese Nanga School Painting (November 7, 1985 to March 9, 1987)
- Japanese Scholar-Painters (November 7, 1985 to November 26, 1986)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Hoashi Kyou 帆足杏雨 (1810-1884)
- Date
- 1863
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Medium
- Ink and light color on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 129.2 x 51.4 cm (50 7/8 x 20 1/4 in)
- Type
- Painting
