Fig 3 oGata Korin, Waves at Matsushima, Edo period, ca. 1700–1716. Six-panel folding screen, ink, color, and gold leaf on paper,
4′ 111–8 ″ × 12′ 7–8 ″. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Fenollosa-Weld Collection).
Korin was more concerned with creating an intriguing composition of shapes on a surface than with locating boulders and waves in space.
Asian artists rarely employed Western perspective.
