Temple in the Mountains / Kanô School / Attributed to
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1955/1.263
- Title
- Temple in the Mountains
- Artist
- Kanô School
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Province M. Henry
- Style/Group/Movement
- Kano School
- Inscription
- Spurious seal of Shûbun (active 1423–1460)
- Dimensions
- 83 cm x 13.2 cm (32 11/16 in. x 5 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- The composition is a well-established type: a complex of temple buildings is tucked into a mountainside, on the shore of a broad body of water, with mists rising to obscure the distant peaks. The artist provides a path leading from the viewer’s space to the temple. Two travelers go before us, a hooded figure riding a donkey over a rustic bridge, and another man striding along on foot, further ahead. The temple buildings themselves are hidden behind thick foliage, as if protected from the secular world.Here the forms of the rocky outcroppings, the trees, and even the mountains are starkly outlined, and there are strong contrasts of light and dark. These features suggest that this is a work of by a professional Kanô School artist, probably of the seventeenth century.
- Subject Matter
- This painting depicts an imaginary scene in south China, the home of the great monasteries where several influential Japanese Zen monks studied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This painting also bears a false seal of Shûbun, one of Japan's most admired landscape painters of the fifteenth century; but in this case, the type departs radically from the elusive, dreamy quality we associate with Shûbun today.
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- coating (material)
- coating by form
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by function
- natural landscapes
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 553 x 1393
- File Size
- 73 KB
- Record
- 1955/1.263
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"Temple in the Mountains; Kanô School; Attributed to." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1955-sl-1.263/1955_1.263.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 08, 2024.
