Mount Fuji and Miho no Matsubara

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Attributed to Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674)
Mount Fuji and Miho no Matsubara
Each signed Kunaikyo Hogen Tan'yu ga kore, sealed Morinobu and Tan'yu
Pair of six-panel screens; ink, gold wash and slight color on paper
59¼ x 138½in. (150.7 x 351.2cm.) each approx. (2)

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Lot Essay

Tan'yu painted Mount Fuji more than twenty-five times. Kiyomi Temple appears at the left of the evocative screen here showing Mount Fuji. For another Mount Fuji by Kano Tan'yu dated 1667 in the Shizuoka Prefectural Art Museum, see Nihon Keizai shinbun, ed., Kano Tan'yu ten/Paintings by Kano Tan'yu: Commemorating the 400th [sic] of Tanyu's birth, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Nihon Keisai shinbun, 2002), pl. 97.

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