Harvard Art Museums > TL42570.2: Peach Blossom Spring Paintings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Peach Blossom Spring (Watanabe Gentai 渡辺玄対) , TL42570.2,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Mar 28, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/340393. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Gallery Text Like Tani Bunchō (1763–1841), whose works are displayed nearby, Gentai borrowed from the idioms of professional Chinese painting that were otherwise anathema to the amateur literati tradition. As a result, he developed a style previously unwitnessed in Edo painting. Peach Blossom Spring derives from a prose preface by Chinese poet Tao Yuanming (365–427), in which a fisherman chances upon a paradisal realm after passing through a cave hidden by blossoming peach trees. He returns home to tell others of his discovery, only to fail to find it again. Gentai’s rendering follows the ancient tradition of using azurite blue and malachite green to endow the mountains that shelter the utopian village with sacred meaning. Identification and Creation Object Number TL42570.2 People Watanabe Gentai 渡辺玄対, Japanese (1749 - 1822) Title Peach Blossom Spring Classification Paintings Work Type hanging scroll, painting Date 1792 Places Creation Place: East Asia, Japan Period Edo period, 1615-1868 Culture Japanese Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/340393 Location Location Level 2, Room 2600, East Asian Art, East Asian Painting and Decorative Arts View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk Dimensions painting proper: H. 155.2 × W. 79 cm (61 1/8 × 31 1/8 in.) overall mounting, including roller ends and suspension cord: H. 224.8 × W. 107 cm (88 1/2 × 42 1/8 in.) Inscriptions and Marks signature: 寛政壬子秋初 邉瑛製 [Painted by Be Ei, early autumn of the stem year Jinshi (mizunoe-ne; 1792) of the Kansei era] seal: upper; square, intaglio: 邉瑛 [Be Ei] seal: lower; square, intaglio: 字廷輝 [Azana Teiki] Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg Object Number TL42570.2 Division Asian and Mediterranean Art Contact am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, exh. cat., Yomiuri Shinbunsha (Tokyo, 2013), p. 96, cat. 37 Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), p. 82, fig. 72 Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 57-58, cat. 45 Exhibition History The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 05/21/2013 - 07/15/2013; Miho Museum, 07/20/2013 - 08/18/2013; Tottori Prefectural Museum, 10/05/2013 - 11/10/2013 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/04/2023 - 06/03/2024 Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/14/2020 - 06/06/2021 Subjects and Contexts Google Art Project Related Articles Art Talk: Painting Edo April 29, 2020 Escape Artists August 31, 2020 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu