Summer Landscape

Accession Number
1989/2.105

Title
Summer Landscape

Artist(s)
Okuhara Seiko

Object Creation Date
1877

Medium & Support
hanging scroll, ink on satin

Dimensions
40 11/16 in. x 13 9/16 in. ( 103.4 cm x 34.5 cm )

Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund

Subject matter
Okuhara Seiko was a female artist inspired by the Kano school but categorized under the Nanga style due to her text populated paintings. She was one of the pioneers of gassaku which is a collaborative painting with both text and pictures. 

Physical Description
A satin hanging scroll painted with ink, this painting focuses on a cliff face. At the foot of the cliff is a roofed building surrounded by trees and a path. The trees climb up the cliff up to the upper fourth of the painting. To the left of the building is a body of water. A small waterfall feeds into it from the lower regions of the cliff. On the right is a distant background scene. The upper right contains four inscriptions two of which, furthest to the right, are written higher than the following two. On the left of the inscription are two red seals on top of each other obscured by the inscription. There is another red seal on the bottom left corner as well.

Primary Object Classification
Painting

Primary Object Type
hanging scroll

Collection Area
Asian

Rights
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Keywords
Landscapes
summer

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On display

UMMA Gallery Location ➜ FFW, 2nd floor ➜ 216 (Japanese Gallery)