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Find the full moon glowing through the mist, then the small red trees on the dark peaks and the autumn flowers along the bottom edge.
This is the left scroll of Yukinobu’s triptych, an autumn night with a full moon over misty peaks. Kano painters were trained in Chinese ink styles, but by the 1600s they also learned the delicate manner of the Tosa school, used for Japanese subjects. The Cleveland Museum of Art notes how Yukinobu laid a delicate range of colors over the tones of ink, colors that help tell one season from another.
one of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk · Painting only: 95 x 41 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Minamoto no Nakakuni Visits Lady Kogō
- Artist
- Kiyohara Yukinobu (Japanese, 1643–1682)
- Date
- late 1600s
- Medium
- one of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting only: 95 x 41 cm (37 3/8 x 16 1/8 in.); Including mounting: 180 x 59.4 cm (70 7/8 x 23 3/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1643–1682
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.