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Landscape with a Distant Temple
1600s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
A traveler has presumably descended from the distant temple compound that consists of several buildings linked together by a winding trail lined with steps. The highest point in the compound is occupied by the most sacred structure in Buddhist temple architecture: a mulitroofed pagoda. This rugged landscape, with its towering craggy peaks, pine forests, and river, typifies the idealized image of religious sanctuary in East Asian medieval ink painting.
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- Title: Landscape with a Distant Temple
- Date Created: 1600s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 195.6 x 57.2 cm (77 x 22 1/2 in.); Painting only: 107.7 x 45 cm (42 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Kinzen Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1979-present
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.52
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Original Title: 遠寺山水図
- Inscriptions: apocryphal inscription dated 1490 on the upper left edge of the painting.
- Fun Fact: This painter emulated the style of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506) a Japanese artist who traveled to China to study painting.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
- Accession Number: 1979.52
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