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Winter and Summer Flowers
Kaihō Yūshōc. 1600
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Winter and Summer Flowers
- Creator: Kaihō Yūshō (Japanese, 1533–1615)
- Date Created: c. 1600
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 157 x 358.2 cm (61 13/16 x 141 in.); Overall: 169.6 x 370.8 cm (66 3/4 x 146 in.); Panel: 169.6 x 61.6 cm (66 3/4 x 24 1/4 in.); with frame: 173.2 x 374.4 cm (68 3/16 x 147 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: (Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, ?-1987, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1987-present
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.40.2
- Medium: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Fun Fact: The pine and bamboo are defined by ink wash, but the flowers take form through color within contour lines.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615)
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
- Accession Number: 1987.40.2
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