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The Zen monk Ping Shan Chu Lin inscribed the following poem on the painting: “Flowering autumn grasses cover the mountain path/ A faint column of smoke rises beyond the wooded peaks/ There dwells an old hermit deep in the heart of the mountain/ Only a child can be seen climbing through the wintry pines.” The artist's impressions are well-expressed in his roughly simple brushwork. There is a shifting concern from the objective landscape of the Song Dynasty to the subjective expression of imaginary landscape in the artist's mind.
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"ColBase: Integrated Collections Database of the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan" is a service that enables a multi-database search of the collections in the four national museums (To...
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National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
The National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (NICH) comprise four National Museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum, and Kyushu National Museum) and two National Research Institutes for Cultural Properties (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties), as well as the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) in Sakai City, for a total of seven institutions.
Last updated
July 20, 2026