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Landscape with a Distant Temple
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About this work
A traveler has presumably descended from the distant temple compound that consists of several buildings linked together by a winding trail lined with steps. The highest point in the compound is occupied by the most sacred structure in Buddhist temple architecture: a mulitroofed pagoda. This rugged landscape, with its towering craggy peaks, pine forests, and river, typifies the idealized image of religious sanctuary in East Asian medieval ink painting.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLandscape with a Distant Temple (遠寺山水図), 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615–1868). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; overall: 195.6 x 57.2 cm (77 x 22 1/2 in.); painting only: 107.7 x 45 cm (42 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 1979.52
