shoukeiga　小景画

KEY WORD :　art history / general terms

Small-scale, close-up painting of landscapes. The scenes generally depict misty fields and rivers or lakes and may also include water fowl, cranes or geese. This small-scale style of painting developed in China during the Tang period and continued as a component of the monumental landscape style of the Northern Sung period. At this time individual scenes were freed from their large-scale surroundings and employed independently as paintings. Famous painters of shoukeiga in China were Hui-chong 恵崇 (c.965-1017) and the slightly later Zhao Ling-ran 趙令穣 (active c.1070-1100). There are also small scene bird and flower paintings (shoukei kachou 小景花鳥), small scene ink bamboo painting (*bokuchiku 墨竹), and small scene deer and monkey paintings (shouen しょう猿).

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