Landscape (Translation)
山水図 室町時代 天隱龍澤賛 花溪藏主筆 紙本水墨 (Primary Title)
painted scroll (Object Name)
Ten'in Ryuutaku 天隱龍澤, Japanese, 1442 - 1500 (Calligrapher)
Kakei Zoshi 花溪藏主, Japanese (Painter)
This Zen painting depicts a seascape of a boat approaching the shore surrounded by rocks, trees and houses. The Zen emphasis on simplicity and spontaneity is achieved through splashes of ink wash and minimum brushwork. The painting has been identified by Kakei Zoshi of the Daitokuji Temple in Kyoto, and the poem inscribed above is by Ten’in Ryuutaku, a Zen priest of the Kanninji Temple. Together they collaborated on numerous paintings in the late 15th century.
Sumi-e 墨絵
Zen Buddhism 禅宗
Muromachi period (1392-1573)
Calligrapher: 天隱叟龍澤 Ten'in so Ryuutaku; Painter: unsigned.
Calligrpher's seals: 天隱 Ten’in (円印), 龍澤 Ryuutaku (方印); a painter's seal （方印）, upper left: 花溪芳秀 Kakei Yoshihide
樹影參差日已斜，春潮渺渺失平沙。係舟此地欲投宿，近岸孤村三四家。 天隱叟龍澤
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund
狩野寿信. 本朝画家人名辞書,. Kano Hisanobu. Dictionary of Japanese painters. 1899.
"Japanese Art," VMFA Artmobile, February 1968 - May 1969
"Japanese Art from the Virginia Museum," Delaware Art Museum, September 23, 1982 - October 31, 1982
"Japanese Art from the Virginia Museum," Delaware Art Museum, September 23, 1982 - October 31, 1982
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