Winter Landscape
Kano Sansetsu 狩野山雪
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 36.100.61
- Credit
- The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1651. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- An ink painting in a tall mounting. The upper half is almost all pale mist; below, rounded snowy hills carry a small temple gate on a ridge, and at the bottom a traveller on horseback crosses the snow past a gnarled old tree and a little bridge.
- Image
- 739 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009012
coldlibrary.com/g/009012 - Credit line
- Kano Sansetsu, Winter Landscape, second quarter of the 17th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009012
Kano Sansetsu worked in Kyoto in the generation after the great Kano decorators and is known for an unusual, almost geometric eye. In this small winter scroll he gives most of the paper to mist and puts the whole season into a few snowy hills, one tree and one traveller. It shows how much a winter can hold with very little ink.
