In this scene of trees crowded together on a verdant promontory, two pine trees emerge upright with their needles forming a canopy of deep shade. Obscured by the trees and the promontory is a house which is connected to the water pavilion by a long corridor. In the pavilion lies a half-robed scholar propped up leisurely on a lounge. Surrounding the pavilion are waves blown by a gentle wind and crowds of lotus plants. Servant boys carrying a fan and a lute make their way along the covered corridor. The cool ambience of the two willows swaying elegantly on the embankment, seen against the backdrop of waterside hills scorched by the summer heat, almost makes the viewer want to enter the painting and leisurely while away the day.This is the fifth leaf from the album Ming-hui chi-chen, and it is unsigned. Judging from the brushwork, the intimate scene of a waterside embankment, and verdant cliff with trees, it appears to be in the style of the Li T'ang (ca. 1049-after 1130) schoo1. However, the brushwork in the middle distance appears somewhat in the Li Ch'eng-Kuo Hsi (10th-1lth cent.) manner. Regardless, the painter was probably active during the middle of the Southern Sung (1127-1279).