Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months

Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months

Kano School six-fold standing screen

One of a pair of six-fold standing screens with gold leaf, this set of screens depicts a different bird, flower, and month on each panel. Examples include mandarin ducks with snow, cranes and bamboo, or pheasants with tall grass. This image is included in the website to emphasize the bird-and-flower motif as central to Japanese painting. Flowers and birds of the twelve months or of the four seasons were wildly popular subjects of hanging scrolls and standing screens. In particular, Kano School artists used these motifs in commissions for divisions in palaces.

Kano School

The Avery Brundage Collection

http://searchcollection.asianart.org/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/36/title-asc/designation-asc?t:state:flow=8fcd0940-73ac-44e0-9699-90102989492c

c. 1703

public domain

pair of six-fold standing screens with gold

Japanese