Kiyohara Yukinobu
1643–1682 · Japanese painting · 4 works
Kiyohara Yukinobu established a career as a painter in seventeenth-century Kyoto, drawing on training within the Kanō tradition. Her subjects included birds, plants, and scenes connected with classical Japanese literature. A painting can carry that literary world through a few objects rather than a crowded narrative. In Autumn in Takao, a poem slip hangs from a maple branch beside a stream. The seasonal leaves and open silk leave room for associations with place, poetry, and passing time, without fixing a single interpretation.
4 works · late 1600s
Find the small poem slip among the leaves, then follow the branch down toward the water. How does the unpainted space hold the scene together?
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
