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Seasonal Landscapes: Winter

mid- to late 1500s

Kano Hideyori 狩野 秀頼

(Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s)
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Culture
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Medium
hanging scroll, ink on paper
Measurements
Image: 64 x 36.1 cm (25 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.); with knobs: 152.8 x 54.9 cm (60 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1988.13.2
Public Domain
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Description

Now comprising three scrolls, this composition was originally a set of four paintings depicting the seasons. The set is among the most important of the artist’s surviving works. Each painting was executed in the gyō mode, indicating a speedy brush with rounded strokes. The terms shin (formal), sō (cursive), and gyō (semicursive), borrowed from calligraphy terminology, are terms commonly used by connoisseurs to describe brushwork in ink paintings.
A hanging scroll in monochromatic ink depicts a winter landscape with mountains rising through layers of mist in the upper section. In the lower foreground, snow-covered rocks and leafless trees cluster near two buildings on a shore, a small boat floating nearby. A red seal marks the bottom left. Patterned gold silk frames the image, with pale green bands at the top and bottom.

Seasonal Landscapes: Winter

mid- to late 1500s

Kano Hideyori

(Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s)
Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)

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