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Both Banks of the Yodo River must peculiar convention of the scenery
surely delineate one of the largest on the near shore being depicted
slices of topography ever presented upside down hails from the mapping
in a single continuous composition: tradition; here the artist tried to show
the scroll begins in Kyoto and ends each bank as it would be seen from
in Osaka. Ôkyo's careful, consistent the opposite shore. Both Banks of the
manipulation of space, chiaroscuro Yodo River is thus an idiosyncratic
modeling of the mountains, and combination of the conceptual and
attention to minute detail prefigure the perceptual. MT
his large cityscapes such as the
Bird's-Eye View of Kyoto, and were
passed on to his followers. The