Wintry Landscape with Trees 1833 Uragami Shunkin This intimate, miniature landscape painting—of the variety Uragami Shunkin’s famous father, Gyokud, also sometimes created—captures the somber mood of a mountain village in late autumn at dusk. In a painting style learned from his father from an early age, employing repeating sharp horizontal strokes to build up the shapes of trees and peaks, the artist contrasts the textures of the rocky outcrops in the foreground with the dreamy mountain peaks in the distance. By the time he created this painting in 1833, Shunkin had already established himself as a Literati painter conversant in the related arts of poetry, calligraphy and playing the koto (Chinese: qin), the musical instrument that had been one of his father’s fortes. Shunkin, who was active in the intellectual and literary circle of Rai Sany (1780-1832) and others in Kyoto, also achieved a reputation as a connoisseur of antique paintings, calligraphies, inkstones, and metalwor