Early Edo Period (17th c.)／Color on gold-leaf paper, pair of six-fold screens
161.5 x 360.0 cm (each)
SUMMARY
The right half depicts the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani while the left depicts the Battle of Yashima, both famous battles in the Genpei War. On the right is painted what is referred to as the Descent from Hiyodori Pass, when Minamoto no Yoshitsune made to attack the Heike camp from behind, and the scene of the death of Taira no Atsumori at the hands of Kumagai no Naozane. On the left are painted Yoshitsune’s troops which attacked the camp and the forces of the Heike who fled to the ocean, as they faced off on land and sea in the Battle of Yashima. Decorated with overflowing golden clouds, meticulously painted with intense color and detailed touches on even the face of each soldier, this piece charms its viewers.
ARTIST
Kaiho Yusetsu
1598-1677
A painter from the early Edo period. Born in Kyoto as heir to Kaiho Yusho in his later years. From the Kan’ei era onward, he was also closely patronized by the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, on the recommendation of Lady Kasuga. Distinguishing himself from his father Yusho’s style of Chinese paintings, his decorative and likeable style was characteristic, and he was good at Yamato-e (classical Japanese painting) and genre painting as well. In later years he worked with the Kano school to produce shouheki-ga (paintings on partitions and interior walls), and worked on several including Shodai-bu-no-Ma at the Kyoto Imperial Palace and Chudan-no-Ma at the Nyogo-goten (residence for court ladies). His masterpiece Dragon and Clouds was painted at Rinsho-in, the bodaiji (bodhi temple) of Lady Kasuga.
List of artworks by the same artist
INFORMATION
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Sunday, August 25 - Sunday, September 29, 2019
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Friday, July 28 - Saturday, August 26, 2017
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Thursday, June 19 - Sunday, August 24, 2008
Eternal Treasures of Japan: The Art of the Samurai National Museum of the Cultural Complex of the Republic (Brasilia, Brazil)
Thursday, August 24 - Sunday, November 19, 2006
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection The Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Curitiba, Brazil)
Wednesday, November 3 - Sunday, November 28, 2004
Treasures of Japanese Art Exhibition Kagawa History Museum (Kagawa, Japan)
Friday, May 1 - Tuesday, June 30, 1998
Treasures of Japanese Arts and Crafts—400 Years of Japanese Art from the Momoyama Period to Modernity National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall (Taipei, Taiwan)
Friday, February 10 - Sunday, April 16, 1995
Treasures of Japanese Art: Edo Period 1615-1868 La Pedrera / The House Mila (Barcelona, Spain)
Friday, September 23 - Sunday, January 22, 1995
Treasures of Japanese Art: Edo Period 1615-1868 Juan March Foundation (Madrid, Spain)
Saturday, May 28 - Monday, July 18, 1994
Treasures of Japanese Art: The World of the Samurai Medici Museum, Medici-Riccardi Palace (Florence, Italy)
Friday, February 4 - Sunday, March 27, 1994
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection The Art Gallery of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shatin, Hong Kong, China)
Monday, February 8 - Sunday, March 14, 1993
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection National Museum of Colombia (Santafe de Bogota, Colombia)
Sunday, January 26 - Sunday, March 22, 1992
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Kunstlerhaus (Vienna, Austria)
Wednesday, September 26 - Sunday, December 9, 1990
Treasures of Japanese Art National Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm, Sweden)
Saturday, March 3 - Tuesday, April 10, 1990
Eternal Treasures of Japanese Culture: Beauty and Spirit of Japan National Museum of Fine Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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