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Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗|Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙

late 18th century · Eight sheets pasted to an eight-panel folding screen; ink on paper; gold on paper · Asian Art

This screen comprises a collage of Japanese poems and sketchlike ink-wash paintings on the theme of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang brushed in the style of the famous early seventeenth-century calligrapher and man of letters Shōkadō Shōjō. The sheets of calligraphy with painting are underlaid by Maruyama Ōkyo's autumn suzuki grasses rendered in gold pigment. This work shows how the Chinese Northern Song literati theme of place and political exile was transformed into a Japanese landscape theme of seasonal reference and atmosphere.

Artist

Shōkadō Shōjō 松花堂昭乗|Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙

Date

late 18th century

Medium

Eight sheets pasted to an eight-panel folding screen; ink on paper; gold on paper

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. H. F. Stone and Mrs. Leon Durand Bonnet, 1956