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Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Takeda Tsuneo, Tohaku/Yusho, vol.9 of Suiboku bijutsu taikei
(Compendium of ink painting) (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974), no. 82.
This traditional Chinese subject, a region in South China with low-lying hills shrouded in clouds, became extremely popular in Japan by the sixteenth century. The eight views, first depicted in the eleventh century by the Northern Song painter, Song Di, are known by the following titles:
Mountain Market, Clearing Mist
Sails returning from a distant shore
Sunset over a fishing village
Evening bell from a mist-shrouded temple
Night rain on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Wild geese descending on a sandbank
Autumn moon over Dongting
River and sky in evening snow
Takeda Tsuneo, Tohaku/Yusho, vol.9 of Suiboku bijutsu taikei
(Compendium of ink painting) (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974), no. 82.
This traditional Chinese subject, a region in South China with low-lying hills shrouded in clouds, became extremely popular in Japan by the sixteenth century. The eight views, first depicted in the eleventh century by the Northern Song painter, Song Di, are known by the following titles:
Mountain Market, Clearing Mist
Sails returning from a distant shore
Sunset over a fishing village
Evening bell from a mist-shrouded temple
Night rain on the Xiao and Xiang Rivers
Wild geese descending on a sandbank
Autumn moon over Dongting
River and sky in evening snow