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Landscapes
山水図
At a glance — Painting · Muromachi period · held by Kyushu National Museum · designated Important Cultural Property of Japan · Kano Masanobu.
Fact Sheet
- Designation
- Important Cultural Property (重要文化財)
- Category
- Paintings
- Period
- Muromachi period
- Date
- 1401–1500
- Creator
- Kano Masanobu (狩野正信、狩野祐勢正信)
- Dimensions
- 69.0×38.8 cm each
- Held by
- Kyushu National Museum
- Location
- Dazaifu, Fukuoka
- Catalogue ID
- cobas-11943
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Kanō Masanobu, founder of the Kanō school, created this pair of winter landscapes. One scene depicts a scholar while the other portrays a gentleman, both representing the ideal Chinese of Japanese literati in the Muromachi period (1336–1573). The neat and refined landscapes also reflect Chinese aesthetics. They reference the style of Ma Yuan, a court painter living in the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279).
— Museum description: Kyushu National Museum (CC BY 4.0), via ColBase / Japan Search.
Record & Sources
- Designation: Important Cultural Property (重要文化財), Government of Japan
- Catalogue ID: cobas-11943 (permanent)
- Official record: Japan Search — jpsearch.go.jp/item/cobas-11943
- Holder's collection: ColBase — Kyushu National Museum
- Photograph: Kyushu National Museum, via ColBase — CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0 licence
Cite this page: “Landscapes（山水図）.” Treasures of Japan, catalogue no. cobas-11943. Kyushu National Museum. https://treasures.yamato-kenkou.com/treasures/landscapes/ — entry last verified 1 November 2026.
Full record data (as published in the official catalogue record)
- Category: Paintings, sketches, and prints:Japan:Medieval ink paintings
- Genre: Paintings
- Material: Ink and light color on paper
- Cultural property designation: Important Cultural Property
- Quantity: 2 hanging scrolls
- Size: 69.0×38.8 cm each
- 員数: 2幅
- 分類: 絵画
- 品質形状: 紙本墨画淡彩
- 種別: 絵画:日本:中世水墨画
- 時代世紀: 室町時代 15世紀
- 法量: 各 縦69.0 横38.8
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