Okano Sekiho (mid-18th century)

岡野石圃

“Reading in Autumn Landscape”
秋景讀陰図

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
113.0 x 45.7 cm. (44 1/2 x 18 in.)

Artist’s seals:
Oka Toru no in; Taiwa Shujin

Colophon by Daiten Kenjō (1719-1801):
“Water cascades from the cloudy mountains
famed from days of old till now,
I especially love this painted scroll
and roam through it all;
Where the bridge is severed by mist and rain
plum blossoms are thin,
Where mountain torrents are crossed by wind and frost
tree leaves are dense.
Inscribed by Shōchū.”

Artist’s seals: Tankai Chikujō; Shōchū