Landscape with Boat in Rocky Stream

A small color woodblock print by Suzuki Shōnen, dated to around 1900–1910 and surviving on the Wikimedia Commons archive. The design depicts a small boat threading a rocky mountain stream — one of the standard subjects of the Kyoto Sinophile landscape tradition, drawn from Chinese poetry and rendered here in the restricted color and clear ink line of late Meiji color woodblock printing. The composition reads as a printed translation of the kind of small landscape painting that Kyoto painters of the period contributed to illustrated albums and [surimono](/glossary/surimono). It belongs to the same body of late color woodblock designs as Shōnen's Honolulu Museum surimono of December and his small print Looking Outside, and gives a useful indication of the late Meiji Kyoto landscape idiom in printed form, parallel to the rise of [shin-hanga](/glossary/shin-hanga) in Tokyo.