{"product_id":"maruyama-kyo-eight-views-of-xiao-and-xiang-rivers-late-18th-century-v17-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","title":"Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙 - Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers - late 18th century v17 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMaruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙 - Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers - late 18th century v17 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis design takes the classic Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, rendered by Maruyama Ōkyo as a folding screen in the late 18th century, and reduces it to a close, carefully inscribed detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eVisual Elements \u0026amp; Composition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream paper dominates the frame, set against vertical columns of gold calligraphy and black ink. The gold inscription runs down the panel in the traditional format of a painted screen, and a vermilion seal sits beside it as a single warm accent. A gold signature seal completes the arrangement. The composition is restrained: text, seal and paper, with the brushwork carrying the weight of the image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMeaning \u0026amp; Symbolism\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Eight Views theme originated in Chinese landscape painting and poetry, pairing eight locales along the Xiao and Xiang rivers in Hunan with moods and temporal markers such as evening bells, returning sails and geese descending over distant shores. Across centuries it carried associations of exile, longing and the link between human feeling and the natural world. Japanese painters adapted the canon into their own idiom, turning a literary subject into a study of atmosphere and spatial refinement. The inscription records the year Tenmei 7, corresponding to 1787, and reads as a painting made to order. The name 應舉 is Ōkyo's own, written in the signature position. Ōkyo founded the Maruyama-Shijō school, which joined direct observation of nature to classical decorative technique, and this work shows that synthesis at a refined level.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMade for the Cut Edge\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA kiss-cut sticker follows its own outline, so the calligraphy and seals here keep their natural boundaries. The design works as a self-contained object, a small piece of Edo-period paper lifted from the screen and placed wherever the collector chooses to keep it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Sticker Space","offers":[{"title":"2 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48524942311642,"sku":"11003960566166091669","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"2 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48524942344410,"sku":"74039763641224251256","price":2.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48524942377178,"sku":"22976445579101652377","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"3 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48524942409946,"sku":"30739446483364096005","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48524942442714,"sku":"30239769171786025192","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"4 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48524942475482,"sku":"32189539156429019303","price":3.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Inch \/ Transparent","offer_id":48524942508250,"sku":"29225750761959319621","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"6 Inch \/ White","offer_id":48524942541018,"sku":"20680343499754900514","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0493\/3949\/8646\/files\/maruyama-kyo-eight-views-of-xiao-and-xiang-rivers-late-18th-century-v17-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal-unknown-alt-3.webp?v=1787977989","url":"https:\/\/thestickerspace.com\/products\/maruyama-kyo-eight-views-of-xiao-and-xiang-rivers-late-18th-century-v17-sticker-vinyl-kiss-cut-decal","provider":"The Sticker Space","version":"1.0","type":"link"}