Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers, Maruyama Ōkyo, 17th century

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Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers, Edo period (1615–1868), 17th century, Japan, Eight-panel folding screen; ink and gold, 43 x 129 in. ( x cm), Screens, Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733–1795), This screen, a collage of Japanese poems and quick ink-wash paintings on the theme of the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang by the famous calligrapher and man of letters Shōkadō, underlaid by Maruyama Ōkyo's golden grasses of autumn, is an interesting study of how this Chinese Northern Sung literati theme of place and political exile was transformed into a Japanese landscape theme of seasonal reference and atmosphere

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