These works are attributed to the Emperor Huizong, the 8th Emperor of the Chinese Northern Song Dynasty, and were once part of a set of four landscape paintings depicting the four seasons that included the summer landscape (National Treasure) kept at Kuon-ji Temple in Yamanashi Prefecture and the now lost spring landscape.
中国・北宋8代皇帝である徽宗（きそう）筆と伝わる作品で、山梨県久遠寺に伝わる夏景山水図（国宝）と今は失われた春景幅とで四幅一対の四季山水であったといわれる。