Kano Tan’yū
1602–1674 · Japanese painting · 4 works
Kano Tan’yū makes ink describe both quiet weather and lively movement. Across a pair of screens, shores, buildings and distant hills carry the eye through changing seasons. In a narrow hanging scroll, gibbons stretch toward the moon’s reflection, turning an animal scene into a Buddhist image of mistaken perception. Compare the long, connected landscape with the steep vertical chain of bodies.
4 works · 1602–1674
Follow the seasonal landscape from one screen to the other, then compare its open water with the gibbons’ reflection.
Chōbunsai Eishi
Nanamachi of the Yotsumeya with Attendants Sumano and Akashi, c. 1787
Hon’ami Kōetsu
A Poem from the Shin Kokinshu with Design of Shinobugusa (Moss Fern), 1605-10
Ike Taiga
Fishing in a Springtime Valley, 1700s
