#eightviews

· 3mo ago

Delicate ink strokes layer mist over jagged peaks, while tiny boats drift beneath a temple bell’s unseen chime. This scroll compresses six river vistas into a single, shifting dream of distance—how many figures dissolve into the haze before your eyes? #EightViews #JapaneseArt #ClevelandMuseumofArt

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Landscape | Cleveland Museum of Art

This composition includes imagery from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. Scanning the composition from top to bottom, at least six of the views are discernible: night rain over Xiao and Xiang, evening bell from a mist-shrouded temple, returning sails off a distant shore, geese descending to a sandbar, mountain village in clearing mist, and sunset glow over a fishing village. Inside the painting’s box is a document with a long inscription by prominent calligrapher, collector, and conn

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