Wang Ziyou Visiting Dai Andao on a Snowy Evening (Ō Shiyū hō Tai Andō

A two-panel folding screen in ink and gold on paper shows a snow-covered thatched hut beside bent pines at the left edge. Beyond, a small boat with a figure drifts across a misty lake toward a pale, faintly drawn mountain under a gold-washed sky.

Look closer: A tiny figure is seated in the boat, with a faint pale moon or sun above the distant mountain.

Artist

Kano Sansetsu

Date

mid-17th century

Medium

Two-panel folding screen; ink and gold on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 3592 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019