Japanese Ink Landscape Scroll, Unzen Mountains, Signed, Framed

About the Item

A tall hanging scroll painted in ink and pale washes on paper: a jagged peak rises through banks of cloud at the top, while below it wooded ridges are built up from thousands of short green and black dabs. A tiny ochre gate or torii sits on the slope at the left, the only man-made note in the composition. The palette is restrained - lamp-black, sage and moss green, faint ochre - against warm cream paper, and the whole scroll is mounted on a pale grey-green silk brocade and set inside a tall dark wood frame under glass. Medium: ink and light colour on paper, mounted as a hanging scroll. Signed lower left of the painting, followed by two red seals. Inscribed on the reverse or mount: Brush inscription in two columns at lower left, partly legible: '於雲仙仁田峠 望普賢' (approximately 'At Unzen, Nita Pass, looking toward Fugen'); a shorter signature column to its left is not legible; Two square red seals below the inscription. Condition: Paper lightly toned with faint horizontal roll creases across the sky; a few small pale marks in the upper area; heavy ceiling-light glare on the glass in all photographs.

Details

Creation Year:

mid to late 20th century

Dimensions:

Height: 79.25 in (201.3 cm)
Width: 23.25 in (59.05 cm)
outside of frame

Medium:

ink and light colour on paper, mounted as a hanging scroll

Period:

20Th

Condition:

Offered in the condition shown in the photographs.

Reference Number:

VO-128

Documentation:

no certificate photographed

Gallery Location:

Brush inscription in two columns at lower left, partly legible: '於雲仙仁田峠 望普賢' (approximately 'At Unzen, Nita Pass, looking toward Fugen'); a shorter signature column to its left is not legible; Two square red seals below the inscription