Spring of Mountain (Okuyama no Haru)
奥山の春図
- Date:
- 1933
- Medium:
- Hanging scroll; color on silk
奥山の春図
Spring of Mountain (Okuyama no Haru) is a hanging scroll painting in color on silk by Yamamoto Shunkyo, dated 1933 — the year of his death — and held by the Adachi Museum of Art in Yasugi, where it is one of the principal late works in the museum's collection of modern Japanese painting. The composition shows a deep mountain interior in the first days of spring: pines and bare deciduous branches climbing a gorge, a small waterfall in the middle distance, and a mist-bound layer of further mountains receding into the upper register of the scroll. Shunkyo's lifelong subject of the Japanese alpine landscape, organized as the experience of walking inward from a near foreground through a layered middle distance into atmospheric depth, is here distilled to its essential form. The scroll is conventionally cited as Shunkyo's last completed major work, painted in his sixty-second year, in the months before his death in Kyoto. It carries forward the Maruyama-Shijō landscape tradition he had absorbed from his teachers Mori Kansai and Kōno Bairei across a working life of half a century, and reads as a kind of summary statement of his approach to the mountain landscape.
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
塩原の奥(秋)・第四扇
1909
Pair of six-panel screens (one of four panels shown); color on silk
水墨 狭斜風趣
before 1933
Ink and wash on paper
Spring of Mountain (Okuyama no Haru) (奥山の春図) was created by Yamamoto Shunkyo (山元春挙) in 1933.
Spring of Mountain (Okuyama no Haru) depicts spring.
