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Matsumura Goshun
Life in the Mountains
1781
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1974/1.252
<p>&quot;The&nbsp;present&nbsp;screens&nbsp;present&nbsp;similar&nbsp;but&nbsp;separate landscape compositions. In&nbsp;the&nbsp;first&nbsp;panel&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;right&nbsp;side, a&nbsp;path emerges&nbsp;and&nbsp;passes&nbsp;an&nbsp;empty&nbsp;roadside&nbsp;pavilion.&nbsp;Farther along, three&nbsp;men&nbsp;are&nbsp;strolling, two&nbsp;of&nbsp;them&nbsp;with&nbsp;hoes,&nbsp;as they return&nbsp;from&nbsp;work&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;fields.&nbsp;Just&nbsp;ahead&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;house&nbsp;where several&nbsp;people&nbsp;converse.&nbsp;Beyond&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;valley&nbsp;with&nbsp;several homes&nbsp;and&nbsp;rice&nbsp;paddies.&nbsp;The&nbsp;scene&nbsp;ends&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;path crossing&nbsp;over&nbsp;a&nbsp;small&nbsp;bridge&nbsp;by&nbsp;more&nbsp;rice&nbsp;paddies.&nbsp;These drained&nbsp;fields&nbsp;indicate&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;season&nbsp;is&nbsp;early&nbsp;autumn after&nbsp;the&nbsp;rice&nbsp;has&nbsp;been&nbsp;harvested&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;earth&nbsp;prepared for&nbsp;winter.<br />
Matsumura Goshun
Life in the Mountains
1781
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1974/1.251
Travelers are seen on a winding mountain pathway, among overlapping layers of mountains.<br /> <br /> <br /> &quot;Goshun&nbsp;has&nbsp;powerfully&nbsp;evoked&nbsp;a&nbsp;winter&nbsp;landscape&nbsp;by&nbsp;reserving&nbsp;large&nbsp;areas&nbsp;of&nbsp;blank&nbsp;silk&nbsp;along&nbsp;with&nbsp;scattered touches of&nbsp;white&nbsp;to&nbsp;suggest&nbsp;snow.&nbsp;The&nbsp;heavy&nbsp;overcast&nbsp;sky&nbsp;and&nbsp;the cloudy&nbsp;washes&nbsp;amidst&nbsp;the&nbsp;bare&nbsp;limbs&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;trees&nbsp;suggest a gloomy&nbsp;atmosphere&nbsp;appropriate&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;theme.&nbsp;The mounted figures&nbsp;and&nbsp;attendants&nbsp;are&nbsp;proceeding&nbsp;along&nbsp;the&nbsp;road towards a&nbsp;mountain&nbsp;pass.&nbsp;Their&nbsp;casual&nbsp;demeanor&nbsp;belies&nbsp;the&nbsp;ordeal through&nbsp;which&nbsp;they&nbsp;have&nbsp;passed.&quot;<br /> <br /> <b id="docs-internal-guid-56596195-7fff-8d60-d089-a3e5d66935e9">Adams, Celeste, and Paul Berry. <em>Heart, Mountains, and Human Ways: Japanese Land
Matsumura Goshun
The Road to Shu
1767 – 1832
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1970/2.152
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