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Folding Screen with Design of Chinese Phoenixes Folding Screen with Design of Chinese Phoenixes

Edo Period/Color on gold-leaf paper, pair of six-fold screens

187.0 x 358.0 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

10 6, 2018 (Sat.)~2 10 (Sun.)

Flowers of Immense Charm–A Masterpiece Exhibition by Four Major Museums National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung, Taiwan)

7 28, 2017 (Fri.)~8 26 (Sat.)

Edo Period Paintings 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan)

10 12, 2013 (Sat.)~11 24 (Sun.)

The Quintessence of Edo Period Painting Nara Prefecture Complex of Man’yo culture (Nara, Japan)

6 19, 2008 (Thu.)~8 24 (Sun.)

Eternal Treasures of Japan: The Art of the Samurai National Museum of the Cultural Complex of the Republic (Brasilia, Brazil)

8 24, 2006 (Thu.)~11 19 (Sun.)

Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection The Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Curitiba, Brazil)

11 3, 2004 (Wed.)~11 28 (Sun.)

Treasures of Japanese Art Exhibition Kagawa History Museum (Kagawa, Japan)

1 26, 1992 (Sun.)~3 22 (Sun.)

Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Kunstlerhaus (Vienna, Austria)

8 10, 1991 (Sat.)~10 20 (Sun.)

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)

9 26, 1990 (Wed.)~12 9 (Sun.)

Treasures of Japanese Art National Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Stockholm, Sweden)

2 22, 1990 (Thu.)~4 1 (Sun.)

Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Sao Paulo Art Museum (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

5 29, 1989 (Mon.)~7 23 (Sun.)

Treasures of Japanese Art from the TFAM Collection Taplow Court Oriental Gallery (Taplow Court, UK)

5 3, 1988 (Tue.)~8 24 (Wed.)

Eternal Treasures of Japan: Japanese Art Collection from the TFAM Collection Institute of France, Jacquemart-Andre Museum (Paris, France)

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