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Folding Screen with Design of the Scenes from the Tale of Genji Folding Screen with Design of the Scenes from the Tale of Genji

Early-Mid Edo Period/Color on paper, pair of six-fold screens

155.6 x 347.7 cm (each)

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SUMMARY

ARTIST

Kano School

The largest school of Chinese-style painting in Japanese art history. Spanning about 400 years from the late Muromachi period to the beginning of the Meiji period, and played a major role in the history of painting. Its founder was Kano Masanobu, chief painter of the Muromachi shogunate. The school would later produce such excellent painters as Kano Motonobu and Kano Eitoku, and came to hold supremacy in painting circles. In the Edo period, the Edo Kano school which included artists such as Kano Tanyu. For generations, the school came to grant its painters guaranteed status as chief painters of the shogunate.

List of artworks by the same artist

INFORMATION

Exhibiton history

6 14, 1997 (Sat.)~7 7 (Mon.)

400 Years of Art in the East and West—From the Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art (Ishikawa, Japan)

6 29, 1994 (Wed.)~8 7 (Sun.)

The Beauty and Spirit of Japan: Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection National Museum of Colombia (Santafe de Bogota, Colombia)

2 4, 1994 (Fri.)~3 27 (Sun.)

Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection The Art Gallery of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shatin, Hong Kong, China)

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