Landscapes and Cranes (Primary Title)
花鸟図屏風 狩野探幽筆 江戸時代 六曲一雙 紙本金地水墨 (Translation)
Kano Tanyu, Japanese, 1602 - 1674 (Artist)
Created by the Kano family, the Kano school of painting emerged in Kyoto in the 16th century and fully developed after 1600, when the capital relocated to Edo, today’s Tokyo. Kano Tanyu was a leading Kano-school artist in Edo. In 1617, he was appointed as an official artist to paint the shogun’s castles. In this pair of screens that depicts summer and winter landscapes, the use of light ink, the variation of brushwork, and the open landscape represent the Kano style of the early Edo period. Each screen bears the artist’s signature (Tanyu hogen hitsu) and a seal (Morinobu).
Kano
Momoyama period (1573-1615)
探幽法眼筆 Tanyu hogen hitsu
守信 Morinobu
探幽法眼筆 Tanyu hogen hitsu
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