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Mount Fuji at Night
Mount Fuji at Night

Mount Fuji at Night

Maker
MediumScroll
CultureJapanese
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGeorge and Mary Rockwell Collection
Terms
  • Paintings
  • Japanese
  • Animals
  • Birds
  • Boats
  • Bodies of water
  • Clouds
  • Geese
  • Huts
  • Lakes
  • Moon
  • Mount Fuji, Honshu, Japan
  • Mountains
  • Night
  • Pagodas
  • Transportation
Object number88.002.197
Label CopyThe Kano lineage of painters was among Japan's most long-lived schools, remaining a conservative force in Japanese painting for some four hundred years. Their monochrome ink landscapes, ultimately modeled on the misty, idealized Chinese Southern Song painting tradition, remained popular among aristocratic and temple patrons for large-scale screens, as well as more intimate works, such as these scrolls, made for private quarters. Kano Tsunenobu, nephew of the pivotal early Edo-period master Kano Tanyu (1602-1674), followed the traditional formula in his compositional approach by confining the dense landscape elements into one corner of the painting, and counterbalancing this with seemingly unending watery and misty expanses. Admired for his deft brushwork, Tsunenobu employed the wet, ink outlines, axe-cut textural strokes, and delicate washes that characterize the lyrical Kano style.
Collections
Mount Fuji Landscape
Mount Fuji Landscape
Kano Tsunenobu
unknown
Lake Suwa in Shinano Province, #44 from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Lake Suwa in Shinano Province, #44 from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830–35
Seven-League Beach in Sagami Province, #24 from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Seven-League Beach in Sagami Province, #24 from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830–35
56.035 b
56.035 b
Katsushika Hokusai
late 18th–early 19th century
Landscape with Willows
Landscape with Willows
Nukina Kaioku
19th century
In the Mountains of the Totomi Province: #38 from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
In the Mountains of the Totomi Province: #38 from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
late 18th–early 19th century
Yoshida on the Tokaido, #39 from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Yoshida on the Tokaido, #39 from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830–35
The Sazai Hall of the Temple of Five Hundred Arhats, #7 from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
The Sazai Hall of the Temple of Five Hundred Arhats, #7 from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai
late 18th–early 19th century
Snuff bottle with landscape painting
Snuff bottle with landscape painting
Liu Shaohua
Fuji through the Cherry-Blossoms (Hanami no Fuji)
Fuji through the Cherry-Blossoms (Hanami no Fuji)
Katsushika Hokusai
late 18th–early 19th century
Fuji from Riyogoku
Fuji from Riyogoku
Utagawa Hiroshige
Carved tusks in the form of bidong (brush holders)
Carved tusks in the form of bidong (brush holders)
Unidentified artist
Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911); Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)