Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
Title
Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
Subject
Kano School
Description
One of a pair of six-fold standing screens, this Kano School work from the Momoyama period depicts a landscape with pines and cranes against gold leaf. This image is included for two purposes. First, this set of standing screens serves to further establish the bird-and-flower motif as central to Momoyama and Edo period Japanese painting. In particular, Kano School artists favored these motifs for screens in palaces. This image is also included so that visitors may compare Kano School cranes to their contemporaries, such as Itō Jakuchū's (伊藤 若冲) Plum Blossoms and Cranes (c. 1761 - 1765).
Creator
Kano School
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1987.342.1,2
Date
c. 1573 - 1615
Contributor
n/a
Rights
public domain
Relation
"Kano School: Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons" (1987. 342. 1,2) In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Format
pair of six-fold standing screens with gold
Language
Japanese
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