Kitagawa Sōsetsu
Active 1639–50 · Japanese painting · 4 works
Kitagawa Sōsetsu arranges flowers and grasses across screens and hanging scrolls. His large paired screens spread clusters of plants through an open field, while smaller works bring blossoms and leaves closer. In Summer Flowers, diluted ink and color pool inside the leaves, and fine gold lines mark their veins. Cleveland connects the screens with the Maeda family’s grand residences, where paintings could shape the setting of a room.
4 works · 1640
Compare the pooled colors inside the hydrangea leaves with the finer lines along their veins.
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
