A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo nagamonogatari)

A narrow handscroll landscape showing travelers beside a pavilion with a tiled roof, two horses with riders, and a figure under an umbrella. A river curves past thatched houses and moored boats toward a pine-covered hill, in ink and muted color on paper.

Look closer: A small figure sits in a boat-side house on the far hillside, almost hidden among the rocks.

Artist

Unidentified artist

Date

ca. 1400

Medium

One handscroll from a set of three; ink, color, and gold on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2843 × 1807 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Funds from various donors, by exchange, Fletcher Fund and Dodge Fund, 2002