Distant View of Streams and Mountains Artist: Nakabayashi Chikutō (Japanese, 1776–1853)

1841

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll, ink on silk, ivory rollers

Dimensions

without mounting: 51 × 16 1/2 in. (129.5 × 41.9 cm)
with rollers: 25 1/2 in. (64.77 cm)
with mounting: 23 in. (58.42 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Kurstin

Accession Number

1976.88

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Dr. Joseph Kurstin and Edith Kurstin; gift in 1976 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Sadako Ohki, "Japanese Art at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 38
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, landscapes (representations)

Subject

mountains streams

Inscriptions

At top left, title on the right: Keizan Shin'en (Streams and Mountains Deep and Far); 2nd line: Tenpo Shinchu or Kanoto Ushi shungetsu sha (1841 spring month painted)

Signed

Chikuto Sanjin (Chikuto mountain man); 2 seals: Seisho no in (seal of Seisho, his personal name sometimes pronounced as Narimasa [successful and two vertical days]; Aza Hakumei (pseudonym Hakumei) [people radical with white and bright]

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