Anonymous (17th century)
Anonymous (17th century)

Cherry blossoms at Mount Yoshino

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Anonymous (17th century)
Cherry blossoms at Mount Yoshino
Six-panel screen; ink, color and gold leaf on paper
58½ x 125in. (149 x 317.8cm.)

Lot Essay

No site in Japan is more famous for its thousands of cherry blossoms than the Yoshino mountains south of Nara. This screen is probably the right screen of a pair showing the blossoming hillsides with the Yoshino River in the lower left. For another pair of screens see Miyeko Murase, Masterpieces of Japanese Screen Painting (New York: George Braziller, 1990), no. 11.

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