Cleveland Museum of Art

Winter and Summer Flowers

Kaihō Yūshō

Date

c. 1600

Medium

One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper

Culture

Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. The pine and bamboo are defined by ink wash, but the flowers take form through color within contour lines.

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