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Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo

Yamaguchi Sekkei1668

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Sekkei lived and studied painting in Kyoto at the Kano school studio, the center of traditional painting activity in Japan since 1500. The use of gold foil as a backdrop for the frolicking animals served a practical as well as a decorative function. Because traditional Japanese rooms had no windows, interior lighting came from portable oil lamps and wax candles, whose effects were magnified by reflective surfaces.

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  • Title: Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo
  • Creator: Yamaguchi Sekkei (Japanese, 1644–1732)
  • Date Created: 1668
  • Physical Dimensions: Image: 149 x 330 cm (58 11/16 x 129 15/16 in.)
  • Provenance: (Nisaburo Mizutani, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Type: Painting
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.10.1
  • Medium: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper
  • Original Title: 牡丹に唐獅子と竹に虎図屏風
  • Department: Japanese Art
  • Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
  • Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
  • Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
  • Accession Number: 1972.10.1
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