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Winter and Summer Flowers
Kaihō Yūshō (Japanese, 1533–1615)
c. 1600
- Medium
- Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 174 x 376 cm (68 1/2 x 148 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
