Minneapolis Institute of Art

Birds in Landscape [left of a pair]

Kano NaonobuLinkedCulture matchlcp-2beef10ad424

Date: first half 17th century
Medium: Six-panel folding screen, one of a pair, ink and color on paper
Department: Asian Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID: 117093

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Although these paintings now exist as a pair of folding screens, this is not how Kano Naonobu designed them. He originally designed them as sliding wall panels. One of the ways you can tell is by looking closely at the far left panel of the right screen, where at the left edge you can see a telltale round repair in the paper surface. This was where one of the door pulls originally was. In that original format—essentially movable, floor-to-ceiling murals—they would have surrounded the room’s occupants, giving them the sense of being immersed in nature. Japan, Asia

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Credit line: Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture

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