Imagine yourself a world traveler in the 17th century and you are visiting Suzhou in China, Kyoto in Japan, and Agra in India for their most famous gardens. Describe the different gardens you would see and discuss the meanings embedded in their special compositions, decorations, and material structures.
You are an expert on East Asian landscape painting who specializes in identifying Chinese and Japanese landscape paintings of unknown sources. Your method is to compare an unfamiliar work with well-known examples and find the best match for a possible artist, date, and subject matter. Please identify this unknown work (below) by finding the best match among the paintings we have discussed in class (posted on Moodle) and explain your choice.