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Winter and Summer Flowers

冬夏花図屏風

c. 1600
(Japanese, 1533–1615)
Measurements
Overall: 174 x 376 cm (68 1/2 x 148 1/16 in.)
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The pine and bamboo are defined by ink wash, but the flowers take form through color within contour lines.

Description

White camellias bloom behind a large pine in the right screen and blue morning glories creep through bamboo in the left screen of this composition. The mountains and bridge suggest a continuous landscape, but the paintings actually juxtapose flowers of winter and summer, with time progressing from right to left. Kaihō Yūshō painted similar landscapes for Zen temples in Kyoto.
Two horizontally oriented six-panel folding screens in gold and ink depict nature scenes. On the top screen, a textured tree trunk with white flowers stands on our right, its gnarled branches reaching left into mist. On the bottom screen, bamboo stalks occupy our left side while climbing vines with blue flowers grow in the center. To our right, a large gray rock rests on the ground.

Winter and Summer Flowers

c. 1600

Kaihō Yūshō

(Japanese, 1533–1615)
Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)

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