# Snow Landscape

- By: Yosa Buson (Japanese, 1716–1783)
- Date: mid-1770s
- Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Painting only: 174.6 x 67.3 cm (68 3/4 x 26 1/2 in.)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit line: Bequest of Mrs. A. Dean Perry
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.111)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1997.111/1997.111_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)

In this painting, the mountains and sky glow with a hidden warmth from undertones in red as birds descend into the trees around a scholar’s retreat. Yosa Buson is recognized in Japanese literary history as one of the country’s greatest poets, but he was also an accomplished, self-taught painter. His style changed over the course of his career. Initially painting with precise brushwork, he gradually developed a freer style like the one he used in this snowscape.