Landscape of Mountains

On the right side of the large horizontal composition a huge mountain in rich ink swells up, with clouds trailing in front of it. In the foreground trees painted in dark ink stand like thickets, and hills and a grove can also be seen on the left. No colors are used; rock surfaces and masses of leaves are expressed with ink alone. Writing is inscribed at the upper left.

In the museum's commentary, the side inscription reads "an autumn day of the year Jinshin," so the work is dated to around September 1812 (Bunka 9). Moving the eye from the mass of mountain in the distance to the drifting clouds in the middle ground and the forest in the foreground, a villager heading for a house in the mountains appears on a narrow path.

It is a large work reminiscent of the long-known masterpiece "Ink Landscape Screens," and is described as a piece in which one can savor the ink painting that was reaching its peak, at a time moving from Buncho's prime toward his later years. Buncho was born in Edo and trained many pupils, creating a new Nanga school in the Kanto region. This scroll is 94.0 cm high and 157.7 cm wide.