FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This unsigned and unsealed composition includes imagery from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. Scanning the composition from right to left, four of the Eight Views subjects appear: sunset glow over a fishing village, returning sails off a distant shore, autumn moon over Lake Donting, and evening bell from a mist-shrouded temple. Not all the elements of the traditional Eight Views theme are here, but the artist suggests its literary presence by leading the viewer through a summer’s journey from one day to the next, aided, like the travelers in the landscape, by the light of the moon.
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Moonlit Landscape (one of a pair)
Moonlit Landscape (one of a pair)
Chinese Landscape
Yi Sumun (Korean, b. c. 1404) — Landscape of the Four Season
Landscape
Kano Tan’yū (Japanese, 1602–1674) — The Four Seasons
Sōami — 相阿弥筆 四季山水図 （瀟湘八景）|Landscape of the Four Seasons (Ei
Landscape with Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
Kano Naonobu (Japanese, 1607–1650) — Summer and Winter Lands
Landscape
Kano Tan’yū (Japanese, 1602–1674) — The Four Seasons
Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755) — Eight Views of the Xi