One of a pair of six-fold screens / Attributed Kanô Tan'yû / Manner of
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- Accession Number
- 1965/1.179
- 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
- ink and light color on paper, one of pair of Six fold screens
- 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
- These panels represent six of the twelve months. The panels each have calligraphy and a red seal in one corner. In each panel there is a bird and a type of plant, which are suggestive of particular months. On the top left panel there is bamboo, the bow of the boat with a small lamp attached to it, and a type of water fowl. In the bottom middle panel is a blooming sakura tree and a pheasant. In the bottom left panel is blue and white wisteria ans small sparrows. In the bottom right panel there is a willow slowly coming back to life after winter over a thatched building.
- 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. Six-fold screens such as this, probably one of a pair, are meant to represent six of the twelve months of the year, with keen attention paid to the birds and flowers associated with each month. 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.
- 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
- bamboo
- boats
- chickens
- cranes (birds)
- crows
- ducks
- flowers (plants)
- houses
- japanese painting styles
- mountains
- pheasants
- rivers
- screens (furniture)
- spring
- summer
- trees
- willow trees
- winter
- wisteria
- Secondary Keywords
- upward
- animals and creatures
- asian
- associated concepts
- birds
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by size
- buildings and the land
- deciduous trees
- descriptors
- dwellings
- earth sciences concepts
- east asian
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture
- furniture by form or function
- grass (plant material)
- herbaceous plants
- japanese
- japanese styles
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by shape or position
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by origin
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people and culture
- physical sciences concepts
- plant material
- plants
- residential structures
- riverine bodies
- scientific concepts
- seasons
- settlements and landscapes
- shrubs
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- transportation vehicles
- trees by leaf life
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- vehicles
- watercraft
- watercraft by general type
- woody plants
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1755 x 2055
- File Size
- 217 KB
- Record
- 1965/1.179
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