One of a pair of six-fold screens / Attributed Kanô Tan'yû / Manner of
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1965/1.178
- Title
- One of a pair of six-fold screens
- Artist
- Attributed Kanô Tan'yû
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- (Kyoto, 1604 - 1674, Edo)
- Medium and Support
- one of a pair of 6-fold screens, ink and light color on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 19th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Kano School
- Inscription
- Signed: Tanyu Hoyu hi (on each panel); Seal: Morinobu (on each panel)
- Dimensions
- 83.2 cm x 46 cm (32 3/4 in. x 18 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- screen
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- bird and flower
- Physical Description
- This six-fold screen, a half of a pair, is meant to represent six of the twelve months of the year, with keen attention paid to the birds and flowers associated with each. Although this screen bears Kano Tan’yu’s signature, it was probably created by his studio or by followers working in this famous artist’s style.
- Subject Matter
- Depictions of the seasons have a prominent place in the tradition of the Kano School (the official school of painting of the Tokugawa shogunate) and Japanese art. But painters were not alone in their masterful use of seasonal references—poetry also drew heavily on such motifs and exchange often took place between these genres, with poems inspiring painted scenes and paintings finding representation in poetic verse. The following late Heian (794–1185) and early Kamakura (1185–1333) period poems would have been part of the artistic dialogue that informs the motifs on these screens:
- Spring is the cherry blossom
- Summer is the cuckoo
- Autumn is the moon
- And in winter,
- the shimmering snow is fresh to the eye.
- Eihei Do-gen (1200–1253)
- In the evening, the biting autumn wind blows through the field
- and quails cry in the Village of Deep Grasses
- Fujiwara Toshihari (1114–1204)
- Primary Keywords
- autumn
- birds
- cranes (birds)
- ducks
- flowers (plants)
- geese
- grass (plant material)
- japan (nation)
- landscapes (environments)
- moon
- mountains
- rivers
- screen prints
- seasons
- snow
- spring
- summer
- sun
- sunrise
- trees
- winter
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- upward
- animals and creatures
- asia (continent)
- associated concepts
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- geographic and political locations
- herbaceous plants
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- materials
- materials by origin
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- plant material
- plants
- precipitation
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- riverine bodies
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- weather and related phenomena
- weather-related phenomena
- woody plants
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1962 x 2190
- File Size
- 189 KB
- Record
- 1965/1.178
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"One of a pair of six-fold screens; Attributed Kanô Tan'yû; Manner of." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1965-sl-1.178/1965_1.178.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
