Summer / Matsubayashi Keigetsu
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- Accession Number
- 1961/2.2
- Title
- Summer
- Artist
- Matsubayashi Keigetsu
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- Yamaguchi Pref., 1876-1963
- Medium and Support
- hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
- Object Creation Date
- Autumn 1922
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Yoichi Nakajima
- Style/Group/Movement
- literati
- Inscription
- Signature of the artist : Keigetsu Sanjin utsusu
- Seals of the artist : Atsushi in; Shikei
- Dated Autumn of 1922
- Period
- Japan, Showa Era (1926-1989)
- Dimensions
- 144.4 cm x 42.2 cm (56 7/8 in. x 16 5/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- Image of a green mountain range that snakes from the lower right of the image to the upper right. The lower right of the image is further embellished with several detailed trees. Slightly lower and to the left of center is a small hut with a white figure standing on the porch.
- Subject Matter
- A part of a pair created by Matsubayashi Keigetsu meant to present the dramatic contrast of summer and winter landscapes. Under the deep blue-green foliage of the summer landscape, a scholar bends his ear to the sound of a rushing stream and gazes out from his hut at the surrounding mist—the promise of more rain to come.
- Keigetsu’s romantic idealization of nature draws on centuries of tradition of literati painting in both China and Japan. For scholars and other members of the intelligentsia, nature was a place of psychic refuge—even if only approached through armchair travel.
- Primary Keywords
- calligraphy
- hanging scrolls
- hills
- japan (nation)
- landscapes (environments)
- mountains
- summer
- trees
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
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- natural landscapes
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- woody plants
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 535 x 1475
- File Size
- 101 KB
- Record
- 1961/2.2
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"Summer; Matsubayashi Keigetsu." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1961-sl-2.2/1961_2.2.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.