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Landscape of the Four Seasons

late 1400s

Yi Sumun

(Korean, b. c. 1404)
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Culture
Korea, Joseon period (1392–1910) or Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink and slight color on paper
Measurements
Overall: 108 x 361.3 cm (42 1/2 x 142 1/4 in.); Painting only: 92.7 x 348.7 cm (36 1/2 x 137 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1976.92.1
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Yi Sumun is believed to have been a 15th-century Korean man who moved to Japan at age 20 and became an influential landscape painter in Japan.

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Yi Sumun is believed to have been a Korean painter who migrated to Japan in 1424 at the age of 20. This pair of screens is the artist’s most important composition in this format. Viewed from right to left, the screens show the passage of the four seasons, a popular theme in medieval Japanese ink painting.
A six-panel folding screen depicts a mountainous landscape stretching continuously across the panels in shades of gray and black against a sand-color background. Ridges of a mountain cut vertically through the center. To the right, water with multiple people crossing a bridge and sitting in houses on either side. To the left, people walk away from a large house nestled in the mountains. The people are roughly outlined with thick, short brushstrokes.

Landscape of the Four Seasons

late 1400s

Yi Sumun

(Korean, b. c. 1404)
Korea, Joseon period (1392–1910) or Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)

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