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Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons
Watanabe Shikōearly to mid-1700s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The painter Watanabe Shikō had a special interest in scientific realism, based on interactions with his patron Konoe Iehiro. Shikō combined his attention to accurate depiction of plants with strong ink outlines and decorative elements like gold and silver, arriving at an innovative style that influenced many of his peers in the city of Kyoto.
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- Title: Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons
- Creator: Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683-1755)
- Date Created: early to mid-1700s
- Physical Dimensions: Each screen: 155 x 368.5 cm (61 x 145 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.132
- Medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper
- Original Title: 四季花木図屏風
- Inscriptions: 始興之印
- Fun Fact: One plant in these screens, tumeric, or <em>ukon</em> in Japanese, is found in Okinawa.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
- Accession Number: 2021.132
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