Among the landscape paintings by Li Shih-ta “Scenery Viewed from a Mountain Lodge” owned by Seikadō Foundation is famous. “Hearing the Spring Sound in Bamboo Grove,” which is introduced here, is also a masterpiece which represents the orthodox phase of his style. This painting reveals trends in landscape painting which can be traced back to Wu Chên and Chü-jan through Hsia Shih-ch\u27ên. The kinship of the style of Li Shih-ta and Hsia Shih-ch\u27ên, both from the same district, Wu-hsien, suggests the local development of the style of such semiprofessional painters. Further, the common features seen both in this work and works by Shêng Mao-yeh, also from Wu-hsien and one generation younger than Li Shih-ta, —— obscure atmosphere, expanding composition in wide picture plane, etc. —— suggest the influence of Li Shih-ta on the development of the style of Shên Mao-yeh. In this paper, the above mentioned presumption is discussed from stylistic point of view
