Landscape with the Moon
Shiokawa Bunrin (attributed) 塩川文麟
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 36.100.5
- Credit
- The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1877. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A pale silk hanging scroll: a faint full moon in a misty sky above soft grey hills, a band of low cloud across the middle, and at the bottom a few dark trees and reeds at the water’s edge.
- Image
- 1042 × 1600
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009042
coldlibrary.com/g/009042 - Credit line
- Shiokawa Bunrin (attributed), Landscape with the Moon, 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009042
Attributed to Shiokawa Bunrin, a Kyoto painter of the Shijō school, which favoured soft washes and observed nature over bold outlines. Almost nothing here is drawn with a line: moon, hills and mist are all pools of diluted ink on silk. It is the quietest night on this wall.
