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Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (right screen)
Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755)
early to mid-1700s
- Medium
- Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 155 x 368.5 cm (61 x 145 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Art
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase 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
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.
