1788
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Wild Geese Descending on a Sandbar, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang is a 1788 unspecified by Tani Bunchō, a Nihonga work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see geese landing on a sandbar in this painting. The scene is peaceful, with soft lines and calm colors. It's part of a set of paintings called the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, which is a theme from Chinese poetry and painting. This style is similar to the work of other Japanese artists, check out the museum where this is kept, The Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting was part of a set of album leaves representing the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, a theme originating in Chinese poetry and painting that spread to both Korea and Japan. Southern China’s Xiao-Xiang area, where the mist-covered banks of the Xiang River created a complex landscape shifting like the moods and minds of people, captured the imaginations of generations of painters and calligraphers. Inscriptions on these works suggest that they were possibly ordered by newly prominent Japanese Confucian scholars.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Tani Bunchō (1763–1841) was a Japanese artist, born in Negishi.
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