{"product_id":"vintage-japanese-hanging-scroll-autumn-pagoda-landscape-with-maple-nihonga-sansui-signed-joen-koyo-season-art","title":"Vintage Japanese Hanging Scroll — Autumn Pagoda Landscape with Maple — Nihonga Sansui — Signed Jōen — Kōyō Season Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis vintage Japanese kakemono (掛け物) captures the most celebrated season in Japanese \u003cbr\u003eaesthetic culture: kōyō (紅葉) - the autumn turning of the maples. Against misty mountains \u003cbr\u003eand a winding river, a five-story pagoda (五重塔, gojūnotō) rises among ancient pines and \u003cbr\u003eblazing red-orange foliage - a composition that distills a thousand years of Japanese \u003cbr\u003elandscape painting into a single meditative image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scene evokes the great autumn pilgrimage sites of Japan - Arashiyama in Kyoto, \u003cbr\u003eMiyajima in Hiroshima - where pagodas and maple forests have inspired poets, painters, \u003cbr\u003eand travelers since the Heian period (794–1185 CE).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗣𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe scroll bears a lyrical verse written in sōsho (草書) cursive script:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    ちるさと 花留守\u003cbr\u003e    庭 平 江\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e    \"Chiru sato - hana rusu\"\u003cbr\u003e    \"The village where petals fall - the flowers are away from home\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis poetic phrase belongs to the Japanese tradition of haiku-adjacent verse - \u003cbr\u003ea moment of seasonal awareness (*kigo*, 季語) that captures the essential feeling of \u003cbr\u003ekōyō: impermanence, absence, and the beauty of things passing. The phrase *hana rusu* \u003cbr\u003e(花留守 - \"flowers not at home\") is a classical Japanese poetic device suggesting that \u003cbr\u003ethe blossoms have already scattered, leaving only their memory in the air.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗡𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗘 \u0026amp; 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painter worked in a mature Nihonga (日本画) style combining:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- Sumi ink (墨) for the mountain forms - applied with kasure (掠れ) dry-brush technique \u003cbr\u003e  to create atmospheric distance and the sensation of mountain mist\u003cbr\u003e- Mineral pigments (岩絵具) in deep red and orange for the autumn foliage - \u003cbr\u003e  wet-on-wet application creating the soft blooming effect (nijimi) characteristic \u003cbr\u003e  of the Rinpa (琳派) tradition\u003cbr\u003e- Fine line work for the pagoda architecture - faithful to the Yamato-e (大和絵) \u003cbr\u003e  tradition of precise architectural rendering within landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artist signed with the brush name 蒸園洲雲 (Jōen Shūun - \"Steaming Garden, \u003cbr\u003eRiver Clouds\") - an evocative literary pseudonym in the bunjin (文人) tradition, \u003cbr\u003ewith a single round red seal below the signature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEstimated period: mid-Shōwa era (c. 1940s–1960s).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e𝗞Ō𝗬𝗢: 𝗝𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗡'𝗦 𝗔𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗠𝗡 𝗔𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗖\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKōyō (紅葉) - the reddening of autumn leaves - is one of the two great seasonal \u003cbr\u003eobservances of Japanese aesthetic life (the other being hanami, cherry blossom viewing). \u003cbr\u003eFrom late October through December, Japanese pilgrimage to temples and mountain sites \u003cbr\u003eto witness the maple forests turn. The pairing of a gojūnotō pagoda with kōyō foliage \u003cbr\u003eis among the most reproduced compositions in all of Japanese visual culture — \u003cbr\u003eappearing in woodblock prints, lacquerware, ceramics, and painting across every \u003cbr\u003eperiod from Edo (1603–1868) to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis scroll brings that seasonal ritual into the home - a private tokonoma display \u003cbr\u003ethat marks the passage of the year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 \u0026amp; 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMounted in hon-hyōgu (本表具) style with deep blue-grey brocade featuring a fine \u003cbr\u003efloral repeat -a restrained, sophisticated mounting that allows the warm autumn \u003cbr\u003epalette of the painting to radiate. Vertical tanzaku format suits modern interiors: \u003cbr\u003enarrow walls, hallways, and reading corners as readily as a traditional tokonoma alcove.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Paper shows light age toning. Pigments remain vivid.\u003cbr\u003eMounting intact with minor wear consistent with period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chikoyaki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45147347877967,"sku":"CKY-SCR-004-NHNG-KYST-467","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0667\/6588\/1423\/files\/IMG_1284_result.jpg?v=1777290919","url":"https:\/\/chikoyaki.com\/products\/vintage-japanese-hanging-scroll-autumn-pagoda-landscape-with-maple-nihonga-sansui-signed-joen-koyo-season-art","provider":"Chikoyaki","version":"1.0","type":"link"}