Japanese 6 panel screens

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JS15 (a) (b) 

Kano school palace scene screens of museum quality

Early - Mid Edo period, C17th

W 328cm x H 166cm

The theme of this screen is renewal, the celebration of Spring, new life and longevity as evidenced by both the spring vegetation, the women and children who are central in the composition the pine tree representing long life.

Japanese screens such as this one, although clearly Chinese in subject matter, thy are ubiquitously Japanese and the treatment and style with which the subject is ‘framed’ to create a rather ‘omnipotent view’ perspective is typical of the Kano school screen painters; the trees to the left and right, the river and rocks in the foreground and the gold leaf clouds and sky at the top of the picture frame the central narrative.

This is in clear contrast to the straight architectural lines and patterns of the central subject of the screen which is set in a traditional Chinese architecture and garden landscape.

Recently remounted with new backing paper and silk border, the Edo period flat and square style lacquered wood surround was replaced but  the style and technique of the painting is indicative of the late C17th indicated by the  use of gofun or ground sea shell used under the gold leaf to build texture and pattern for the clouds. Some minor invisible restoration was made to surface but older patched and somewhat clumsy restoration has been maintained to keep the integrity and history of the work.

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JS63 (a)  & (b)

Pair of early Meiji period literati landscape screens

Signed: Tanomura Chokunyu (1814 - 1907)
Dated: Meiji 4 (1872)

Like his master and adoptive father Tanomura Chikuden, Tanomura Chokunyu was an esteemed nanga painter (artists concerned with being literati scholars, influenced by classical Chinese painting, often creating ink landscapes). Working in Kyoto, he helped establish and became the first director of the Kyoto Municipal School of Fine Arts and Crafts, and thereafter founded the Nihon Nanga Kyokai. With a commitment to Chinese style painting he remains a leading Meiji period exponent of the nanga tradition and along with producing poetry and calligraphy (in accordance with nanga traditions) he was a juror for many exhibitions and had many pupils. Two similar screens dating to the same period are housed at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, other works can be found in the Ashmoleum Museum Oxford, the British Museum, and the Idemitsu Art Gallery Tokyo. 

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Sumi ink on gold leaf

W 376cm x H 176

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JS18 

Kano School Dragon Screen
attributed to Kano Tanyu (1602-1674) . 

C18th Signed and sealed.

W 370cm x H 173cm

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JS6

Literati screen - Japanese painting of classical Chinese landscape

Signed: Soga Shohaku (1730 - 1781), Mid Edo period, C18th

Sumi ink and sunago (powdered gold leaf)

W 363cm x H 168cm

An important historical artist and the subject of a solo exhibition at the Kyoto National Museum in 2005, Shohaku was a soga painter and a dominant figure in the Kyoto artworld although many of his contemporaries including Okyo belived him to be mad and a fanatic due to his lack of conformity to polite society. An independent and proud artist often drawing influence from Chinese literati and legend, the strength in his brushwork was still appreciated by critics of the time. Shohaku works can be found in many major international public collections including the Fogg Art Museum Harvard, Freer Gallery of Art Washington, Itsuo Art Museum Osaka, Kosho-ji Kyoto, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Tokyo National Museum and Tokyo University of Arts Exhibition Hall.

Kyoto National Museum Shohaku Show exhibition

Works at Fogg Art Museum Harvard 

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JS3 

Japanese Kano school screen with pine tree, camellias, cherry blossom and Chinese figures in the landscape 

Early C18th, c.1700, pigment colours and oxidized silver leaf on  paper

W 373cm x H 170cm

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JS19 

Japanese Kano school screen of azaleas and pheasant

Circa 1830, ink, pigment and gold leaf

W 377cm x H 168cm

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JS62 

Small 6 panel carako-e screen - children dancing and playing music in pine landscape by stream

Mid Edo period, C18th. Ink, colour and gold leaf

W 220cm x H 94.5cm

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JS63 

Tsuru (crane) screen and bamboo by stream

Mid C19th, Colour pigment and gold leaf

JS64

Shijo school screen of 7 cranes in golden landscape

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JS65 

C18th Kano School tiger in a bamboo grove subject screen

Late C18th, Signed: Yosenin Korenobu (1753-1808)

Sumi ink on paper

W 382cm x H 170cm

Yosenin was the sixth generation head of the Kobikicho Kano family, and served the shogunate as oku eshi (highest ranking of official painters). In 1781 he was given the title of hogen and in 1794 that of hoin. He has works in Musee Guimet (National Museum of Asiatic Arts) Paris, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Victoria and Albert Museum London.

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JS11 (a) & (b) 

Late 17th century Kano school peony landscape screens.

Both screens signed: Hogan Josen Fujiwara Chikanobu Hitsu
-Kano Chikanobu (Shushin) (1660 - 1728)

Ink and pigment on gold leaf

W 370cm x H 150cm

*Kano Chikanobu (Shushin) was born in Musashi Province. Eldest son of Kano Tsunenobu. In 1678, he entered the service of the shogunate. In 1681, he worked with his father at Edo Castle. In 1713, he succeeded his father as third-generation head of the Kobikicho branch of the Kano school. Later he received the honorary title of hogen and in the same year painted a screen to be given to a Korean emissary. He has works in the Metropolitan Museum New York, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston (several pieces) and Tokyo National Museum.

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View Chikanobu screen Metropolitan Museum New York

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JS2

Ceremonial flower cart screen

Late Edo period, C19th, Colour pigment and gold leaf