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Seventy-Two Peaks Under the Blue Sky with Mount Furong
Matsumura Goshun, 1785
The low height of this folding screen suggests it was used as a partition in a small tea room. An inscription names the scene as the Heng mountain range in Hunan, China, with its 72 peaks, a range linked to Buddhist and Daoist traditions and celebrated in poetry. The inscription singles out Mount Furong, one of the peaks.
The Cleveland Museum of Art says Matsumura Goshun may have drawn on the example of his teacher, Yosa Buson, whose last work showed the same mountains.
The screen has eight panels, in ink with gold and silver foil on paper. It is about 275 centimetres wide but only 52 centimetres high in the image, a long, low strip designed to be seen from the floor.
From the museum record
| Artist | Matsumura Goshun |
|---|---|
| Date | 1785 |
| Medium | Eight-panel folding screen; ink with gold and silver foil on paper |
| Size | Image: 51.5 x 275.2 cm |
| Museum | The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| Credit line | Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund |
| Accession number | 1980.28 |
| Licence | Open Access (CC0) |
Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art collection record. Facts such as dates, sizes and credit lines come from that record. The write-up above was drafted with AI assistance and checked against the museum record and standard references. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.
