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KANO TAN'YU. Landscapes of the Four Seasons

Landscapes of the Four Seasons. Artist: Kano Tan'yu (Japanese, 1602-1674). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image (each): 60 3/8 in. × 11 ft. 6 7/8 in. (153.4 × 352.7 cm). Date: 1630s.
At far right, a stream fed by melting snow comes tumbling down out of the mountains, symbolizing the onset of spring. This foreground of waterfalls, bent trees, and rooftops suddenly gives way to an expanse of blank paper--a diagonal swath of mist that parts to reveal distant summer mountains. A flock of geese and the large moon are the only indications of autumn in the left screen (not exhibited), which is dominated by icy mountains and a snow-covered village. 
A grandson of the great Momoyama painter Kano Eitoku (1543-1590), Kano Tan'yu had, by the time he was a teenager, already become official painter to the second Tokugawa shogun Hidetada (1579- 1632; reigned 1605-1623). This pair of screens is dated on stylistic grounds to the 1630s, when Tan'yu was head of the Kano school's Kajibashi atelier in Edo, which Tan'yu himself had established in 1621.
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Título: Landscapes of the Four Seasons
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Landscapes of the Four Seasons. Artist: Kano Tan'yu (Japanese, 1602-1674). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image (each): 60 3/8 in. × 11 ft. 6 7/8 in. (153.4 × 352.7 cm). Date: 1630s. At far right, a stream fed by melting snow comes tumbling down out of the mountains, symbolizing the onset of spring. This foreground of waterfalls, bent trees, and rooftops suddenly gives way to an expanse of blank paper--a diagonal swath of mist that parts to reveal distant summer mountains. A flock of geese and the large moon are the only indications of autumn in the left screen (not exhibited), which is dominated by icy mountains and a snow-covered village. A grandson of the great Momoyama painter Kano Eitoku (1543-1590), Kano Tan'yu had, by the time he was a teenager, already become official painter to the second Tokugawa shogun Hidetada (1579- 1632; reigned 1605-1623). This pair of screens is dated on stylistic grounds to the 1630s, when Tan'yu was head of the Kano school's Kajibashi atelier in Edo, which Tan'yu himself had established in 1621.
Técnica/material: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
Periodo: Edo period (1615-1868)
Museo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Crédito: Album
Tamaño imagen: 4800 × 2311 px | 31.7 MB
Tamaño impresión: 40.6 × 19.6 cm | 1889.8 × 909.8 in (300 dpi)