Traveling among Streams and Mountains, signed T'ai-ku i-min and sealed Tung-kao, is a handscroll in ink on paper in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. It is a work of unquestioned authenticity and quality, but the exact authorship has remained a mystery. Its precise position and significance in the history of twelfth and thirteenth century Chinese painting have remained to be explored.

Investigation of structure and brushwork and comparisons of style with that of other paintings of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, particularly those attributed to the Chin period, have established the handscroll as a mid-thirteenth century painting. Through analysis of the subject, study of references to ancient styles, exploration of the meaning of the signature and seal, and investigation of parallels with twelfth and thirteenth century literary and philosophical concerns, the eremitic concerns expressed in the painting are clarified in terms of their historical context.

The subject is found to be related to The Homecoming by the fifth-century poet T'ao Ch'ien. The artist, through the relationship with T'ao Ch'ien validated in the signature and seal, as well as through his reverence for ancient painters, is connected in spirit and philosophy with the poets and artists of the late Chin and post-Chin period. Traveling among Streams and Mountains is established as one of the few extant paintings that can be related to the predynastic Yuan, the period after the fall of the Chin in 1234 and before the official founding of the Yuan dynasty in 1279.