Cleveland Museum of Art
Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons
Watanabe ShikōLinkedCulture matchlcp-9cf3749769aa
- Date
- early to mid-1700s
- Medium
- Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 444412
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. One plant in these screens, tumeric, or ukon in Japanese, is found in Okinawa.
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- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Provenance
- London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan | 2021-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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