The Silent Season: Images of Winter in Chinese & Japanese Paintings

Li Da [Li Ta] (early 18th century)

“Country Villa in Snow”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
166.0 x 92.0 cm. (65 3/8 x 36 1/4 in.)

Inscription:
“Painted by Li Ta with his fingernails.”

Artist’s seals:
Li Ta chih-yin; Fu-yun (“drifting clouds”)

(see write up below)

Zhang Kai [Chang K’ai] (19th century)

“Eight Views of the Silver Mountains” 1892

Album of eight leaves, ink and color on paper
33.5 x 33.5 cm. (13 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.)

[All leaves illustrated below]

Zheng Pei [Cheng P’ei] (active third decade of the 18th century)

“Four Herons in Snow”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
111.3 x 49.2 cm. (43 7/8 x 19 3/8 in.)

Inscription based on a poem
by Hsiao Ying-shih (708-759):
“Birds! Birds!
Luxuriant seagulls and herons,
floating in the rapids, playing on a sandbar,
without let they are pure and white.
Cheng Wei-p’ei.”

Artist’s seals:
Cheng Wei-p’ei yin; Shan-ju

(see write up below)

Kakutei (1722-1785)

“Crow on Camellia in Snow”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
133.4 x 36.8 cm. (52 1/5 x 14 1/2 in.)

Inscription:
“Kakutei.”

Artist’s seals:
Goji-an (“Hut of five characters”); Kakutei tosho (“Seal of Kakutei”); Kozan Ryu (“High mountains and flowing water”)

(see write up below)

Shukei Imei (1731-1808)

“Branch of Blossoming Plum in Snow”

Hanging scroll, ink on paper
129.0 x 28.5 cm. (50 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)

Seals of the artist:
Shukei no in; Imei

Colophon by Kenjo Daiten (1718-1801):
“A single branch hangs down from who knows where, and contains this very grand color;
Tender buds rest half-opened beside each other, Passing on word so all think fragrance, fragrance.
Inscribed by Shochu.” Shishi Samei; Kanjo Daiten

Published:
Museum of Kyoto: Kyo no Eshi wa Hyakka Ryoran, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Kyoto, 1998, pl. 1-27, p. 86.

(see write up below)

Okamoto Toyohiko (1773-1845)

“Boat on Snowy River”

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
109.3 x 35.6 cm. (43 x 14 in.)

Inscription:
“Toyohiko.”

Artist’s seals:
Toyohiko; Shigen

Colophon by Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828):
“Covered in snow
the boat becomes
a big elephant.
Inscribed by Hoitsu.” Uka

(see write up below)

Okada Tamechika (1823-1864)

“Fujiwara Kinto with Blossoming Plum” (Left)
“Fujiwara Toshiyuki at the Kamo River” (Right)

Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and color on silk
Each 97.6 x 32.9 cm. (38 1/2 x 13 in.)

Inscriptions:
“Tosho Gakusei (‘Student of Painting and Calligraphy’), Fujiwara Tamechika.”

Artist’s seals:
Fuji

Published:
Yamato Bunka-kan: Tokubetsu-ten Fukko Yamoto-e Shii Tamechika—Bakumatsu Ocho Renbo, Nara, 2005, pl. 39, p. 154.

(see write up below)