Description
Japanese Antique Landscape Screen Painting by Unkoku Tōeki. Small painting of mountain landscape with rocky outcroppings, huts and trees on the edge of a wide expanse of water. A group of scholars contemplate a water fall. More figures sit outside waterside huts. A lone figure fishes from a boat. Painted in ink and light colors on paper. Signed Unkoku Toeki (1591-1644).
Unkoku Toeki was the second son of Unkoku Tōgan. (1547–1618), heir to the artistic legacy and patrons of Sesshû Tōyō (1420–1506). The Unkoku workshop was patronized by local daimyo.
Edo Period (17th century)
Dimensions: 10 1/2″ high x 53 1/2″ long