Birds and flowers of spring and summer

Details

Kano Toun Masunobu (1625-1694)
Birds and flowers of spring and summer
Each signed Kano Toun hitsu and each sealed Shitetsu uji
Pair of six-panel screens; ink, color, gold, silver and gold flecks on paper
60 7/8 x 133¾in. (154.5 x 340cm.) each (2)

Literature

Tokyo National Museum, ed., Tokubetsuten: Kanoha no kaiga (Special exhibition: Paintings of the Kano school) (Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1979), pl. 148.

Hosono Masanobu, ed., Edo no Kanoha (The Kano school in the Edo period), Nihon no bijutsu 262 (Tokyo: Shibundo, 1988), pl. 4.

Exhibited

Tokyo National Museum, "Tokubetsuten: Kanoha no kaiga" (Special exhibition: Paintings of the Kano school), 1979.10.9-11.25

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Lot Essay

Mandarin ducks and other ducks swim in a mountain stream framed by cranes and a plum tree on the right screen, and pheasants and cherry tree on the left. Toun Masanobu worked side by side with Kano Tsunenobu and Kano Yasunobu on the paintings in the Kyoto imperial palace in 1674. He was given special treatment by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu and founded the Surugadai branch of the Kano school in Tokyo, receiving the title Hogen in 1691.

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