National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties
of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan

Chinese literary artists often desired to live in seclusion in mountains away from worldly affairs and amusing themselves with refined pleasures and entertainment. The expression in this landscape painting inherits the Song academy landscape style of Ma Yuan and Hsiakuei of the Southern Song dynasty and eventually leads to Sun Jun-ze of the Yuan dynasty. The spatial expression indicating clouds and mist is extremely natural and suggestive. Previously owned by the Yôtoku minor Zen temple of Daitoku temple.