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Urakami Gyokudô
Rain Cloaks the Mountains
Private collection 37.0×31.5 cm

Small in scale, but undoubtedly one of Gyokudô’s finest works. Rhythmic brushwork and ink tone modulation give birth to a sublime mountainscape.

Urakami Gyokudô
Reading the “Book of Changes” by a Mountain Stream
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
168.1×92.4 cm

One of Gyokudô’s largest works. Thought to date from the latter half of his 60s.

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1. Urakami Gyokudô
Fall Colors Halfway

1818 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
(Kimura Teizô Collection)
40.6×46.0 cm

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2. Urakami Gyokudô
Drunken Clouds, Sober Moon

1818 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
(Kimura Teizô Collection)
40.0×46.0 cm

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3. Urakami Gyokudô
Text in Clerical Script

1818 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
(Kimura Teizô Collection) / M2895
37.9×22.3 cm

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4. Urakami Gyokudô
Crossing a Bridge
in the Deep Mountains

1818 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
(Kimura Teizô Collection) / M2894
40.9×22.9 cm

These four paintings were originally part of a single composition, but then later cut up and mounted as four separate hanging scrolls. This layout reconstructs their original arrangement.

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Urakami Gyokudô
Frozen Clouds, Sifted Snow
Kawabata Foundation
133.5×56.2 cm

This renowned work is considered to be Gyokudô’s masterpiece. The Nobel Laureate Kawabata Yasunari owned and loved this painting.

Urakami Gyokudô
Sunset over Autumn Mountains
Private collection
63.3×30.3cm

While Gyokudô primarily painted on paper, with the occasional work on silk, this is painting on satin seems to be unique in his oeuvre.

1. Urakami Gyokudô
Evening Clouds on a Fair Summer Day
Private collection
30.3 cm

2. Urakami Gyokudô
White Clouds, Half Obscured
Private collection
26.5×46.9 cm

3. Urakami Gyokudô
Misty Waters, Fishing Companions
Private collection
30.1×30.2 cm

While today mounted as a hanging scroll triptych, these works were originally on one hanging scroll with each painting in its own hand-drawn outline.