KANO SCHOOL, EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

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A Pair of Six-Fold Screens
Kano School, Edo period (17th century)
Ink and colour on paper, the left-hand screen with a jako-neko [civet] and six cubs playing under a pine tree and peonies beside a stream, the right-hand screen with a similar scene of a jako-neko and six playful cubs beside a stream under a cherry tree
171 x 368cm. each (2)

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Lot Essay

Jako-neko [civet] are also called reibyo [sacred cat] and they have been one of the most favoured subjects for Chinese style painters including those of the Kano school.
There is a pair of screens with similar composition depicting jako-neko attributed to Kano Utanosuke (each separately in the collection of Museum Fine Arts Boston, www.mfa.org/collections, accession number: 11. 6781 and Suntory Museum, Tokyo) and another pair of screens with jako-neko under cherry blossom trees by Kano Munenobu in the Nezu Museum, (Nezu Museum, Tokyo, see Kodansha, Nezu Bijyutukan Meihin Shusei: Kansho-hen (Tokyo, 1986), p. 184-185, pl. 129).

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