虎渓三笑図|Three Laughers of Tiger Ravine
mid-16th century
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions
Image: 34 5/8 × 14 1/8 in. (87.9 × 35.9 cm) Overall with mounting: 71 × 19 3/8 in. (180.3 × 49.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021
Accession Number
2021.55
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Sekishō Shōan 石樵昌安 · 1534–1566
**Sekishō Shōan (石樵昌安, 1534–1566)** was a Japanese painter active during the late Muromachi period (1392–1573). Little is documented about his personal life or early training, yet the seals on roughly a dozen surviving works firmly link him to the emerging Kano school. He appears to have worked not in the main Kyoto lineage but in an eastern branch of the studio based in Odawara, near the historic...