Trees in the Clouds on Layered Mountains (Jûzan umbokuzu), Nakabayashi Chikutô — Trees in the Clouds on Layered Mountains (Jûzan umbokuzu), 1853

Nakabayashi Chikutô

1776–1853 · Japanese painting · 1 work

Nakabayashi Chikutō (1776 to 1853), a native of Nagoya, moved to Kyoto in 1803 and became a leading literati painter and theorist, with many pupils. Through the wealthy collector Kamiya Ten’yū he could study and copy Chinese paintings at first hand. He specialized in Chinese-style landscapes and also wrote on music, poetry and art.

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Artist information: Minneapolis Institute of Art (Landscape with a Man Seated by a Stream, Summer Mountains, Sudden Shower, Chestnuts, Landscape in the Manner of Dong Yuan, Old Man Chikutō’s Sketchbook).

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