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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 Edo Period (17th c.)/Color on gold-leaf paper, pair of six-fold screens

111.1 x 276.0 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

INFORMATION

Exhibiton history

Thursday, August 24 - Sunday, November 19, 2006

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

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)

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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