新曲図屏風|“Takebun,” from the Musical Drama “The New Piece” (“Shinkyoku”)
The Met
Artist: Unknown
Date: early 17th century
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold and silver leaf on paper
Dimensions: Image (each): 61 11/16 in. × 11 ft. 11 5/16 in. (156.7 × 364 cm) Overall (each): 67 3/16 in. × 12 ft. 4 13/16 in. (170.7 × 378 cm)
Credit Line: Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
A multi-panel screen with gold clouds, depicting a landscape, battle, figures, buildings, and water.
Detailed Description
A six-panel screen is predominantly gold, featuring large, stylized gold clouds with dark outlines that weave across the entire composition, visually separating different scenes. The background behind the clouds is rendered in muted browns and tans, representing land and water. The leftmost panels depict a wide expanse of water with undulating waves, rendered in shades of brown, gray, and white. Several small boats, each carrying a few figures, are visible on the water. A large white bird, possibly a crane, stands in the water near the center-left. Other small figures are scattered on small landmasses or in the water. The central panels transition to more land-based scenes. Buildings with dark roofs and light-colored walls are nestled among green pine trees. Figures in various garments walk along paths or stand near the structures. The gold clouds continue to flow through this section, partially obscuring parts of the landscape and figures. The rightmost panels depict a more active scene, possibly a battle. Numerous figures, many dressed in armor and carrying weapons like bows, arrows, and swords, are engaged in combat. Some figures are on horseback, while others are on foot, running up a brown, hilly terrain. More buildings and pine trees are present, with distant, dark mountains visible above the gold clouds in the upper right.
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