Rain Clearing over a Summer’s Mountain
1904
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1904
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Rain Clearing over a Summer’s Mountain is a 1904 unspecified by Seifū Yohei III, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a mountain rising through mist, ink strokes soft as summer rain. This potter-painter worked in two worlds at once. While he shaped clay for tea bowls, he kept a brush ready for moments like this—quick, quiet, almost like a sketch. The mist isn’t just weather; it’s the space between seeing and knowing. Look up *sfumato*—the way edges blur, just like here.
Before entering into his apprenticeship with Yohei II, Yohei III trained as a painter in Osaka. He continued to paint throughout his career as a ceramist. Yohei IV authenticated this painting as having been done by his father in a box lid inscription dated to the summer of 1919 . The signed inscription by Yohei III in the painting’s upper right gives the title Rain Clearing Over a Summer’s Mountai n and is accompanied by his Imperial Household Artist seal. His signature seal is found in the lower left on the grassy riverbank. The composition follows a basic literati painting convention: it…
Seifū Yohei III studied to paint ink compositions in an abstracted, calligraphic way associated with well-read people who made paintings for their own amusement and as gifts for friends.
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Seifū Yohei III (1851–1914) was a Japanese artist, born in Hyōgo Prefecture.
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