# The Four Seasons

- By: Watanabe Seitei (1851–1918)
- Date: 1890
- Medium: ink, silk
- Classification: hanging scroll
- Dimensions: height 7.5 cm x width 63.8 cm x depth 23.7 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Oranda-Jin, 2000)
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/AK-MAK-1712-C--5a924a4d67c4763bab8bb0d04e304207)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/vsbFq/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Seitei was a talented painter of animals and flowers. He made prints and paintings on the basis of painstaking nature studies. Here as well he devoted much attention to the cherry blossoms and the detailing of the creatures, for instance the wings of the dragonfly in the painting of summer. In contrast, the waterfall in the background is rendered in broad strokes of the brush.