Thatched huts along a shoreline from the <em>Three Dusks</em>
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number
F1904.370
Tags
Charles Lang Freer collectionEdo period (1615 - 1868)JapanJapanese Artkakemono
About this artwork
This painting belongs to a set of three by Kano Tan'yu, a leading painter of the Kano school of professional artists. Inspiration for the paintings came from groups of poems known as the "Three Dusks" or "Three Evening Poems." The verse inscribed on this painting was composed by Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241):