Famous Views of Ōmi

Unknown artist, 1660s–90s

Download3400 × 1601 px View on a wall Edit

Medium: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper
Size: Image: 152.4 x 345.6 cm (60 x 136 1/16 in.); Overall: 165.7 x 358.2 cm (65 1/4 x 141 in.); Closed: 170 x 11.7 x 61.6 cm (66 15/16 x 4 5/8 x 24 1/4 in.); Panel: 165.7 x 59.7 cm (65 1/4 x 23 1/2 in.); with frame: 169.7 x 362.2 cm (66 13/16 x 142 5/8 in.)
Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

Ōmi is an area around Lake Biwa near Kyoto. The Shinto shrine Hiyoshi Taisha and the Buddhist temple Ishiyamadera are in the upper right and upper left of the composition, respectively. At center is the pilgrimage route and people in the town before the temple gates. Harvested rice fields to the right and flowering cherry blossom trees at left show seasonal change from winter to spring.