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Winter and Summer Flowers

冬夏花図屏風

c. 1600

Kaihō Yūshō 海北友松

(Japanese, 1533–1615)
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Culture
Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)
Medium
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
Measurements
Image: 157 x 357.6 cm (61 13/16 x 140 13/16 in.); Overall: 169.6 x 370.2 cm (66 3/4 x 145 3/4 in.); Panel: 169.6 x 61.7 cm (66 3/4 x 24 5/16 in.); with frame: 173.2 x 373.8 cm (68 3/16 x 147 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1987.40.1
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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.
A horizontally oriented six-panel folding screen depicts an ink and gold leaf painting against a shimmering gold background. On the right, a thick, gnarled tree trunk rises with branches adorned with vibrant green leaves and delicate white camellia blossoms. To the left, subtle gray ink washes create misty hills and spindly, dark branches that gradually dissolve into the golden expanse, evoking a sense of vast, atmospheric depth.

Winter and Summer Flowers

c. 1600

Kaihō Yūshō

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

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