Artist
Kano Tan’yū
(狩野探幽; 1602–1674)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1630s
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and light color on paper
Each screen 153.5 x 352.6 cm (60 3/8 in. x 11 ft. 6 7/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Myōkakuji, Kyoto; Matsukata Iwao, Tokyo
Literature
“Sansui zu byōbu” 1910
; 1910
“Sansui zu byōbu” (“Landscapes,” by Tan’yū Kano). Kokka, no. 241 (June): 385–86.
Kihara Toshie 1995, fig. 6
; 1995
“Kano Tan’yū no suibokuga ni okeru futatsu no vision” (Two visions in the ink paintings of Kano Tan’yū). Bijutsushi 44, no. 1 (March): 95–115.
Kihara Toshie 1998, pp. 97, 132, fig. 11
; 1998
Yūbi no tankyū: Kano Tan’yū ron (The search for profound delicacy: The art of Kano Tan’yū). 2 vols. Osaka: Osaka Daigaku Shuppankai.
Murase 2000, no. 107.
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See also
- Japanese paintings » Kano School of the Edo Period
- Screens
- Works of the Edo period
- Works by Kano Tan’yū
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 146 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on each screen] Painted by Kano Uneme no shō Morinobu
Seals
Illegible; Uneme