3. Figure 27-1 Dry cascade and pools, upper garden, Saihoji temple, Kyoto, Japan, modified in Muromachi period, 14th
century.
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4. Figure 27-2 TOYO SESSHU, broken-ink landscape, Japan,
Muromachi period, 1495. Hanging scroll, ink on paper, 4’ 10 1/4” x
1’ 7/8”. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo.
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5. Figure 27-3 KANO MOTONOBU, Zen
Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a
Broom, Japan, Muromachi period, ca. 1513.
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper, 5’ 7
3/8” x 2’ 10 3/4”. Tokyo National Museum,
Tokyo. 5
6. Figure 27-5 HASEGAWA TOHAKU, Pine Forest, Japan, Momoyama period, late sixteenth century. One
of a pair of six-panel screens, ink on paper, 5’ 1 3/8” x 11’ 4”. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo.
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7. Figure 27-11 SUZUKI HARUNOBU,
Evening Bell at the Clock, from Eight Views of
the Parlor series, Japan, Edo period, ca. 1765.
Woodblock print, 11 1/4” x 8 1/2”. Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Clarence
Buckingham Collection). 7
8. Figure 27-12 KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series,
Japan, Edo period, ca. 1826–1833. Woodblock print oban, ink and colors on paper, 9 7/8” x 1’ 2 3/4”. Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston (Spaulding Collection). 8
9. Japanese Koi Fish Paintings
The koi fish in Japanese folklore represents the overcoming of
obstacles, because the koi fish travels up the yellow river and
when it comes to the end of the river it transforms into the
dragon; thus overcoming the adversity represented by the strong
river to fufill its own destiny.
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