id: 173020 accession number: 2015.514 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.514 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:09.662000 Lakeside Retreat, late 1400s–early 1500s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; overall: 118.8 x 43.4 cm (46 3/4 x 17 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of George Gund III 2015.514 title: Lakeside Retreat title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1400s–early 1500s creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1525 current location: creditline: Gift from the Collection of George Gund III copyright: --- culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 118.8 x 43.4 cm (46 3/4 x 17 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting, and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea opening date: 2000-03-19T00:00:00 Ink Paintings and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting, and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 19-May 28, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 19 March-28 May, 2000: Ink Painting and Ash-Glazed Ceramics: Medieval Calligraphy, Painting, and Ceramic Art from Japan and Korea, no. 24, 72-75 (repr.) --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This scroll makes clear the rich visual diversity of ink painting outside metropolitan Kyoto. These Kanto region paintings are generous in size, as well as in their visions of imagined foreign scenery. They are similarly composed: foreground expanses of water give way to clouds and bands of mist in middle distance, concealing the bases of the towering peaks, marking the transition in compositional space in both vertical and far distances. These mountain forms dominate the landscape vision as they echo and fill the narrow confines of this traditional hanging scroll format of the Muromachi era.

A particular allure of this painting lies precisely in its classical setting highlighted with assertive tonal values in ink washes, dotting strokes, and dotting clusters with the more rustic-but in the Japanese view "natural"-elements of bamboo groves, brushwood fences, grass-roofed huts, and gentle, lowland streams nearby. These are traits linked to 15th-century Korean suibokuga (ink paintings) favored by the many clerics of 15th-century Kyoto and Kamakura. The artist rendered the subject through the filter of 15th-century Korean painting rather than classical Chinese painting. He may even have been a Korean monk-painter resident in one of Kyoto's Zen temples, as many were in the 15th century. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.514/2015.514_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.514/2015.514_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2015.514/2015.514_full.tif