Winter and Summer Flowers
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions
169.6 × 370.8 cm · image: 157 × 358.2 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1987.40.2
Tags
male
About this artwork
White camellias bloom behind a large pine in the right screen and blue morning glories creep through bamboo in the left screen of this composition. The mountains and bridge suggest a continuous landscape, but the paintings actually juxtapose flowers of winter and summer, with time progressing from right to left. Kaihō Yūshō painted similar landscapes for Zen temples in Kyoto.