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White Elephant and Other Beasts
(also known as Birds, Animals, and Flowers)
White Elephant and Other Beasts is a pair of six-fold painted screens, also known as byōbu, attributed to Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲). The pair of screens…
details for the Phoenix Composed Exhibition
details taken from the second of a pair: "Standing Screens of Paulownias and Phoenixes," attributed to Kano School and "Pheasant Screen," Kano School. date uknown (18th century?)
Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
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…
Standing Screens of Flowers and Birds of Four Seasons
This is one set of six-fold standing screens from a pair. The original pair was used to depict the flora and fauna symbols attributed with the four seasons. Kano Eitoku used paints, ink, and gold leaf to depict peonies, paulownias, bamboo, a pair of…
