Edo Period/Color on gold-leaf paper, pair of six-fold screens
187.0 x 358.0 cm (each)
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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
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Saturday, October 6 - Sunday, February 10, 2019
Flowers of Immense Charm–A Masterpiece Exhibition by Four Major Museums National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)
Friday, July 28 - Saturday, August 26, 2017
Edo Period Paintings 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan)
Saturday, October 12 - Sunday, November 24, 2013
The Quintessence of Edo Period Painting Nara Prefecture Complex of Man’yo culture (Nara, Japan)
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)
Sunday, January 26 - Sunday, March 22, 1992
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Kunstlerhaus (Vienna, Austria)
Saturday, August 10 - Sunday, October 20, 1991
Behind Golden Screens: Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection – An Official Event of Japan Festival ’91 and the Edinburgh Festival National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh, UK)
Wednesday, September 26 - Sunday, December 9, 1990
Treasures of Japanese Art National Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm, Sweden)
Thursday, February 22 - Sunday, April 1, 1990
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Sao Paulo Art Museum (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Monday, May 29 - Sunday, July 23, 1989
Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Taplow Court Oriental Gallery (Taplow Court, UK)
Tuesday, May 3 - Wednesday, August 24, 1988
Eternal Treasures of Japan: Japanese Art Collection from the TFAM Collection Institute of France, Jacquemart-Andre Museum (Paris, France)
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