Landscape

Kenkō Shōkei

Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape by Kenkō Shōkei: A vertical, long rectangular painting on aged paper with a brown color. The top section shows a grayish-brown sky with some darker shading near the top. There are several columns of black Japanese text in the upper third. The bottom two-thirds depict a mountainous landscape with a large cliff on the right and a body of water on the left. In the foreground, there is a pine tree on a rocky outcrop. A building with a tiled roof is on the left near the water and another building is partially obscured on the right. Several boats are on the water. The painting has a decorative gold border at the top and a thin dark border around the edges.