Summer / Matsubayashi Keigetsu

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Accession Number
1961/2.2
Title
Summer
Artist Nationality
Japanese
Artist Life Dates
Yamaguchi Pref., 1876-1963
Object Creation Date
Autumn 1922
Object Creation Place
Asia (continent)
Japan (nation)
Creation Place 1
Asia (continent)
Creation Place 2
Japan (nation)
Style/Group/Movement
literati
Inscription
Signature of the artist : Keigetsu Sanjin utsusu
Seals of the artist : Atsushi in; Shikei
Dated Autumn of 1922
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.
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535 x 1475
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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 March 28, 2024.
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