Imaginary Landscape, 18th century, Sakaki Hyakusen, Japanese, 1697 - 1752, 15 15/16 x 21 1/8 in. ( x cm) (image), Ink and light color on paper, Japan, 18th century, Sakaki Hyakusen probably developed his interest in Chinese painting because of his family's business of selling Chinese medicinal herbs. As one of the pioneers of Nanga painting, a style inspired by the great tradition of scholar painting in China, Hyakusen experimented widely. Here, curious scale discrepancies and spatial ambiguities suggest Hyakusen's artistic experimentation.

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