Untitled

This anonymous pair of hanging scrolls dated to 1362, created in Japan as part of a sixteen-scroll set and executed in ink and color on silk, is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York under accession number 1995.598a, b. No further commissioning, prior ownership records, or exhibition history are provided in the available sources.

The pair of hanging scrolls, dated 1362 and executed in ink and color on silk, exemplifies a mid-14th-century Japanese landscape by an anonymous hand. The work belongs to a set of sixteen scrolls and portrays both animal and human figures within a natural setting, a composition typical of Muromachi-era painting. As the Metropolitan Museum of Art accession 1995.598a, b, the piece is treated as a representative example of anonymous landscape painting, highlighting its role in tracing the development of narrative landscape imagery in early Japanese art.

These two untitled hanging scrolls, rendered in ink and color on silk, are selections from a larger series of sixteen paintings. Each scroll in the complete set features a distinct animal. Here, one depicts a figure astride a deer, while the other shows a man riding a goat, both traversing through atmospheric, mist-shrouded mountain landscapes. These works exemplify traditional East Asian painting formats and materials.