Pavilion in the mountains

This painting was uses a rare technique called jijik in Korean. Around ten works of this type are known, most from Korea and some from China dating from the eighteenth century and later. The artist first paints the image in ink on paper, leaving a wide unfinished border around the perimeter. Next the painting and border are sliced to make vertical strips like the warp threads in textile weaving. Other threads resembling transverse woof threads are interlaced in the vertical strips to make the checkerboard surface pattern.

For other woven-paper paintings, see Tochigi Prefectural Museum et al., Chosen ocho no kaiga to Nihon: Sotatsu, Taiga, Jakuchu mo mananda ringoku no bi Joseon wangjo eui hoehwa wa ilbon: Sotasseu, Taiga, Jakeuchudo paeeun ieut nara eui mi Paintings of Korea's Joseon Dynasty and Japan: The Art of a Neighboring Kingdom That Inspired Sotatsu, Taiga and Jakuchu, exh. cat. (Osaka: Yomiuri Shinbun Osaka Honsha, 2008), pls. 191-96.