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The piece includes a large title section, landscape image of the garden,<br /> two seals of the artist, and a portion of calligraphic text.<br /> The text reads: &quot;The Small Cloud Dwelling occupies a corner of Mr. Dingfu&#39;s Green Surrounded Mountain Villa in Nanxun. His respected wife, Lady Pang, used to meditate and chant sutras there&hellip; In the 8th month, fall of 1909, Lu Hui completed this painting &hellip;&quot;
Lu Hui
The Small Cloud Dwelling
1909
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1981/1.308
This vertical composition consists of tall, thin trees in the foreground, with a lone boatman floating beneath and behind them. As the scene stretches upwars, mountains take up a dominant position in the picture, stretching toward the sky. Above them is calligraphic text.
Zha Shibiao (Cha Shih-piao)
Cloudy Mountains and Misty Trees, after Dong Yuan
1650 – 1699
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1975/1.73
This is a long horizontal scroll with several calligraphic inscriptions on the right portion of the paper. On the left are 3 figural scenes. The one closest to the writing shows a male figure wearing a large headdress seated in the lotus position within a circle. Next there is a figure with four arms who stands on the back of a dragon. Two people stand on either side- one a short blue-skinned man who holds a bowl and the other a smaller figure who holds a brush and paper. The third scene shows a male figure, seated in the lotus position, who holds a sword, a wheel, a brush and paper in his four hands.
Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Suiten kyo (Sutra of Varuna, Deity of the Waters)
1300 – 1335
Gift of Harold Phillip Stern, presented in memory of Archibald Gibson Wenley
1964/2.104
Horizontally long. Ink on paper. Mostly calligraphy with a foliage imagery at the beginning.
Shen Zhou
Pine and Hibiscus
1489
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1961/1.173

Chinese (Chinese (culture or style))
Hares in a landscape
18th century
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1981/2.134

Ma Yuanyu (Ma Yüan-yü)
Flowers
1699 – 1722
Gift of Mr. H.C. Weng
1966/2.36
On this handscroll, we see topis that alternate between plants, fish, birds, a&nbsp;moonlit hillside, a seated Hotei, and &quot;a&nbsp;man&nbsp;seated&nbsp;before&nbsp;a large&nbsp;flower&nbsp;pot&nbsp;containing&nbsp;a&nbsp;profusion&nbsp;of&nbsp;lotus&nbsp;leaves.&nbsp;His cap&nbsp;indicates&nbsp;that&nbsp;he&nbsp;is&nbsp;probably&nbsp;a&nbsp;Confucian&nbsp;scholar&nbsp;who&nbsp;is relaxing&nbsp;on&nbsp;a&nbsp;summer&nbsp;day.&quot;&nbsp;<br /> &quot;They&nbsp;are&nbsp;executed&nbsp;with&nbsp;such&nbsp;quick&nbsp;brushwork&nbsp;and&nbsp;slight&nbsp;color&nbsp;that&nbsp;the entire&nbsp;scroll&nbsp;could&nbsp;have&nbsp;been&nbsp;completed&nbsp;at&nbsp;a&nbsp;single&nbsp;sitting.&quot;<br /> <br /> <b id="docs-internal-guid-d79ed4e4-7fff-a8d6-2e74-e4e48165a9a9">Adams, Celeste, and Paul Berry. <em>Heart, Mountains, and Human Ways: Japanese Landscape and Figure Painting: a Loan Exhibition from the University of Michigan Museum of Art.</em> Museum of Fine Arts, 1983.</b>
Matsumura Keibun
Twenty Fruit and Flower Studies
1800 – 1849
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1961/1.166
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