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A lone, elderly figure, his retreat from the world tucked into the mountains near a waterfall, looks out his window onto the landscape below. A poem in Chinese at the upper right conveys the atmosphere of the painting—the approach of evening, light coming through clouds, and a cool mountain breeze after a rainfall. The painter, Kan Tenju, was best known as a calligrapher and seal carver with a deep respect for Chinese literature.</div>
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Kan Tenju (Japanese, 1727-1795</div>
1767<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1767-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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