Birds, Trees, and Flowers, late 1500s. Creator: Kano Mitsunobu (Japanese, 1565-1608); Kano Shoei (Japanese, 1519-1592).

Birds, Trees, and Flowers, late 1500s. Creator: Kano Mitsunobu (Japanese, 1565-1608); Kano Shoei (Japanese, 1519-1592).

2-723-825 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Birds, Trees, and Flowers, late 1500s. Unhurried contemplation of these screens ( byobu ) reveals that their appearance differs slightly. Notice the shapes of the rocks and pine trunks. The actual ink lines defining their contours and the many brushstrokes providing textual definition to forms and surfaces show two distinct hands at work in the late 16th-century Kyoto. Both Kano Shoei and Kano Mitsunobu were well known throughout the country for their skills. As masters of the Kano academic painting style, they naturally favored Chinese-inspired subject matter, such as birds and flowers, rendered in emphatic ink tonalities and placed within mountainous landscape settings. As can be seen in the byobu on the right, military class patrons frequently requested scenes depicting predation, such as hunting scenes that were inserted as additional subject matter in otherwise tranquil vistas celebrating flora and fauna.


Image Details


Medium
  1. Ink, colour, and gold on paper
  2. Pair of six-fold screens

Picture Type
  1. Painting

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 8742x4179
File Size : 107,030kb


Aliases

  1. 1948.128
  1. 125884
  1. 0940011616
  1. 1948.128
  1. 2-723-825
  1. 2723825

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