Recesses of Shiobara (Autumn), panel 4
塩原の奥(秋)・第四扇
- Date:
- 1909
- Medium:
- Pair of six-panel screens (one of four panels shown); color on silk
塩原の奥(秋)・第四扇
The fourth and leftmost panel of Recesses of Shiobara closes Yamamoto Shunkyo's 1909 composition by opening the gorge outward into long atmospheric distance. The high horizon line, behind which a layered mass of further mountains recedes into haze, is one of the elements that allies the work with the older monochrome ink landscape tradition of Sesshū and the Muromachi masters as much as with the Maruyama-Shijō shasei tradition Shunkyo had absorbed from Mori Kansai. The autumn palette of red and rust along the lower slopes is balanced by the cooler tonalities of the more distant pines, and the overall composition reads as a single continuous landscape across all four panels — one of Shunkyo's most ambitious essays in the gradual, ambulatory, observed style that he made the defining mode of his career. The screens were exhibited at the third Bunten in 1909, won the top prize, entered the imperial holdings, and were transferred to the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, where they are now classified as an Important Cultural Property.
塩原の奥(秋)・第一扇
1909
Pair of six-panel screens (one of four panels shown); color on silk
秋の清水寺
1891
Ink and color on silk
水墨 狭斜風趣
before 1933
Ink and wash on paper
塩原の奥(秋)・第二扇
1909
Pair of six-panel screens (one of four panels shown); color on silk
Noka no aki (Miyagi ken Ayashi
1946
Color woodblock print
Woodblock print
1950
Color woodblock print
Autumn 1920
Woodblock print, ink and color on paper
Recesses of Shiobara (Autumn), panel 4 (塩原の奥(秋)・第四扇) was created by Yamamoto Shunkyo (山元春挙) in 1909.
Recesses of Shiobara (Autumn), panel 4 depicts autumn foliage.