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Photo: Eduardo Calderon
Small Retreat in the Mountains
Photo: Eduardo Calderon

Small Retreat in the Mountains

Date1927
Maker Fukuda Kodojin Japanese, 1865-1944
Label TextKodôjin's paintings continued the literati appreciation of landscape as the appropriate allusion for the ideal life. Here massive cliffs frame the view of a small village and a towering distant peak; in the foreground a scholar sweeps the path before a simple hut. The scholar is separated from village life by a barrier of trees, and the remote location and intervening distance are emphasized by a band of clouds. Much like this scholar-hermit set apart from village life, Kodôjin adamantly maintained his independence from the art establishment that had developed during the Taishô period (1912-1926).
Object number2010.41.49
Photo CreditPhoto: Eduardo Calderon
Published ReferencesMorioka, Michiyo; Berry, Paul. "Modern Masters of Kyoto: The Transformation of Japanese Painting Traditions," Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1999, p. 222, illus. 63.
Credit LineGift of Griffith and Patricia Way, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions85 1/8 x 22 3/8 in. (216.2 x 56.8 cm)
MediumInk on silk
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Fukuda Kodojin
Object number: 2010.41.86
Photo: Eduardo Calderon
Fukuda Kodojin
1918
Object number: 2010.41.48
Photo: Eduardo Calderon
Fukuda Kodojin
1918
Object number: 2010.41.50
Fukuda Kodojin
late 1920s
Object number: 2010.41.83
Photo: Scott Leen
Fukuda Kodojin
1926
Object number: 2010.41.47
Three Friends by a  Mountain Stream
Tanomura Chokunyu
1902
Object number: 2010.41.17
Waterfall Deep in the Mountains
Tsuji Kako
1908-9
Object number: 2010.41.30
Landscape with Two Travelers
Suzuki Shonen
1912
Object number: 2010.41.14
Photo: Eduardo Calderon
Kubota Beisen
ca. 1890
Object number: 2010.41.78
Listening to a Hototogisu in a Summer Valley
Suzuki Shonen
1914
Object number: 2010.41.15