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&quot;The&nbsp;composition&nbsp;is&nbsp;classic&nbsp;for&nbsp;Chikuto&nbsp;with&nbsp;a&nbsp;central&nbsp;foreground&nbsp;grouping&nbsp;of&nbsp;trees, a&nbsp;low&nbsp;middle&nbsp;ground&nbsp;area, and&nbsp;a steeply&nbsp;rising&nbsp;series&nbsp;of&nbsp;hills.&nbsp;The&nbsp;large&nbsp;trees&nbsp;have&nbsp;curving trunks&nbsp;outlined&nbsp;by&nbsp;sinuous&nbsp;dry&nbsp;brushwork&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;a&nbsp;Chikuto trademark.&nbsp;The&nbsp;varied&nbsp;brushwork&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;foliage&nbsp;suggests&nbsp;a wide&nbsp;variety&nbsp;of&nbsp;plants.&nbsp;The&nbsp;soft&nbsp;pastel&nbsp;tints&nbsp;are characteristic&nbsp;of&nbsp;Chikuto&#39;s, reserved&nbsp;palette.&quot;<br /> <br /> <b id="docs-internal-guid-6eefd8f4-7fff-20d5-0596-42dde0727b25">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>&nbsp;
Nakabayashi Chikutō
Mountain Landscape in Summer
1800 – 1849
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
1982/2.56
<p>&quot;The&nbsp;present&nbsp;painting&nbsp;is&nbsp;somewhat&nbsp;unusual&nbsp;among&nbsp;his works&nbsp;for&nbsp;its&nbsp;use&nbsp;of&nbsp;silk&nbsp;and&nbsp;color...The&nbsp;inscription&nbsp;seems&nbsp;to&nbsp;contain&nbsp;a&nbsp;reference&nbsp;to&nbsp;Okayama prefecture...Entitled&nbsp;Solitary&nbsp;Pleasure&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Noble&nbsp;Recluse, the&nbsp;painting&nbsp;represents&nbsp;a&nbsp;scholar reading&nbsp;by&nbsp;a&nbsp;window&nbsp;above&nbsp;a&nbsp;stream.&quot;<br /> <br /> <b id="docs-internal-guid-6aad52ae-7fff-f5c1-9252-3f519a18ab9b">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></p> <br /> &nbsp;
Kushiro Unsen (Unzen)
Solitary Pleasure of the Noble Recluse
1791
Anonymous Gift
1981/1.313
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