Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape
Medium
One of a set of sliding door panels mounted as hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
Dimensions
painting only: 177.1 × 137.1 cm · including mounting: 259.1 × 151.1 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
1970.6.1
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About this artwork
These four paintings originally decorated sliding doors that partitioned the interiors of Japanese buildings. Painters from the Kano school, named after the artist Kano Motonobu (1476–1559), were major forces in the production of screens and architectural interiors in Kyoto. When he headed the workshop, his work was prized by the upper strata of society. Kano is credited with combining the subtlety of Chinese black ink painting, as seen in the rocks and hills, with the color and realism of Japan...