Landscape painting

This landscape painting is said to be by Ma Yuan, but unlike the "corner-view" landscapes characteristic of the Ma school, this painting is characterized by a style that gives depth to the picture by composing a foreground, middle, and background. Compared to the landscape painting style of the Southern Song Painting Academy, which emphasizes the figures in the painting and largely omits the natural background, placing emphasis on the viewer's free imagination, the artist of this painting places far more emphasis on depicting the natural scenery. As a result, the figures in the painting are small, as if blending into the background, emphasizing the size of the nature. Formerly owned by Honrenji Temple in Okayama Prefecture.