Album of Landscapes, mid 18th century, Kō Fuyō, Japanese, 1722 - 1784, 11 1/2 × 8 3/16 × 1 1/8 in. ( × × cm), Ink and light color on paper, Japan, 18th century, On a cold moonlit night in early spring, a man parks his boat at the river’s edge, leaves his servant boy behind to watch the boat, and strolls up a mountain path toward an isolated pavilion. Wearing long, flowing, light blue robes, the man appears to pause just before a grove of gnarled plum trees covered with tiny white blossoms. Through the canopy of delicate flowers, he gazes up toward the dramatic mountain peak

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