# Landscape with Gentle Peaks

- By: Kan Tenju (Japanese, 1727–1795)
- Date: possibly 1800s
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Painting: 133.2 x 45.2 cm (52 7/16 x 17 13/16 in.); Mounted: 216 x 67.7 cm (85 1/16 x 26 5/8 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.7)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1978.7/1978.7_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A figure sits in a retreat tucked into the mountains near a waterfall. Kan Tenju was best known as a calligrapher and seal carver. Of Korean heritage, he was a patron of artist Ike Taiga (池大雅) (1723–1776), and a cousin of Taiga’s student Aoki Shukuya (青木 夙夜) (died 1802). The Chinese-style poem reads as follows:

Smoky mist in the mountain reflects light after the rain, Sunlight passes through the clouds to cast shadows of the trees, Alone in the sunset, I read a well-worn book.