四季花草図屏風|Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons
The Met
Artist: Kano Mitsunobu 狩野光信(Japanese, 1565–1608)
Date: late 16th century
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold paint, and gold leaf on paper
Dimensions: Each: 59 15/16 in. × 11 ft. 7 7/16 in. (152.3 × 354.2 cm)
Credit Line: Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
Six-panel screen with plants, flowers, butterflies, and green landforms on a gold background
Detailed Description
A six-panel screen, presented horizontally, features a vibrant gold background. Across the bottom, dark green, irregular shapes suggest land or water, from which a variety of plants and flowers emerge. Tall, slender green grasses with delicate blades rise from these green forms, extending upwards across the gold surface. Interspersed among the grasses are numerous flowering plants. On the left, clusters of pale purple and white multi-petaled flowers are visible, alongside smaller orange-red blossoms. In the center, larger red and pink multi-petaled flowers bloom from the green ground, accompanied by more white and pale purple flowers. Towards the right, additional green plants with smaller white and light purple flowers, as well as some orange-red blooms, grow from the green shapes. Several small, light-colored butterflies are depicted in flight across the gold background, particularly in the upper left and central sections. Two large, dark green, amorphous shapes, resembling stylized clouds or distant landmasses, float in the upper left and upper right portions of the gold background. A narrow, dark border with a repeating floral or geometric pattern frames the entire screen and delineates the individual panels.
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