Sesshū Tōyō, Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons
Dean Perry, 1960.173 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Sesshū Tōyō

Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons

second half of the 1500s

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
Six-panel folding screen, ink and color on paper
Dimensions
158.5 × 359.4 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-114002

The monk-painter Sesshū is revered today, as he was in his own time. While he left Kyoto's sophisticated intellectual and cultural environment to live in a provincial village in a far western province, he seems never to have severed contacts with the monastic communities of his young adulthood. His residence in Yamaguchi proved fortuitous because his patron, the region's military lord, enjoyed considerable freedom in conducting trade missions overseas with Korea and China. Sesshū went to China in 1467 and traveled about the country, visiting well-known historical sites and Chan (Zen) temples …

Provenance

Dean Perry, 1960.173

Registry history

  • second half of the 1500s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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