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Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

Watanabe Shikō

Cleveland Museum of Art

Eight-panel folding screen with a landscape scene. The artwork features a mountainous riverbank with buildings, trees, and foliage drawn in black ink on beige paper. A winding river is depicted on the right side of the panels with a boat on the water. A seagull flies over the river on the right. The left side shows a hillside with a building on the left and a pagoda on top of a mountain in the center. The entire scene is bordered by a gold patterned frame, and the panels are divided by thin black lines. The artwork is titled "Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers" and is by Watanabe Shikō.

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1263 × 568 px
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