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Details
- Other Title
- Mount Sumiyoshi (previous title)
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Edo (Tokugawa) period 1615 - 1868 → Japan
- Date
- 1688-1703
- Media categories
- Screen , Painting
- Materials used
- single six-panel screen; ink, colour and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 151.0 x 348.8 cm image; 166.5 x 364.6 cm screen
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1987
- Location
- South Building, lower level 1, Asian Lantern galleries
- Accession number
- 584.1987
- Copyright
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About
This screen portrays softly contoured hills partially shrouded in clouds. In the top left, a Shinto shrine appears to float above the clouds, while, in contrast, the right section of the screen illustrates salt-makers on the shore.
The semi-abstract quality of the deliberately asymmetrical composition and the sumptuous combination of greens and gold are characteristic of Japanese ‘yamato-e’ painting. This style, based on the use of outline and flat colour, had its origins in the literary interests of Japan’s Heian period (794–1185), when themes such as the four seasons and famous scenic places brought a fresh, and distinctively Japanese, inspiration to imagery and creativity.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
In one drop of water, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Jun 2019–21 Feb 2021
Elemental, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Jul 2022–2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Asian Collection: East Asia', pg. 246-287, Sydney, 1999, 274 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies and Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Asian Collection Handbook, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Japanese Painting', pg. 53-69, Sydney, 1990, 56-57 (colour illus.).
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Jackie Menzies, AGNSW Collections, 'Asian Art - India, South-East Asia, China, Tibet, Korea, Japan', pg. 173-228, Sydney, 1994, 215 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Mrs Ella Bodor, Nov 1987, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 1987.