Japanese Chinoiserie is a made landscape rather than a recorded one. Several of Japan's gardens have been compressed into a single panel 140 cm wide and 3.5 m high, arranged the way a garden designer arranges a view: hills set at the back, water brought forward, a tree placed to interrupt the eye before it reaches the far edge.
It is painted in a traditional hand, which shows in the brushwork. Trunks and branches taper in a single stroke, water is given in a few decisive lines, and the flowering of the sakura is drawn loosely enough to read as blossom rather than as pattern. The restraint is what makes it feel current; there is more open ground here than a Victorian chinoiserie would ever have permitted, and the scene breathes because of it.
The panel hangs to a straight match on a non-woven ground. Since it is a scene, the height at which the horizon falls governs everything, so it is worth setting out the wall before cutting, particularly where a bed head, a dado or a chimney breast will interrupt it. A dining room, a principal bedroom or a small hall are its natural homes, with plain floors and little else on the walls.
