Birds and Flowers in a Landscape of the Four Seasons
1550–99
- Medium
- Six-panel folding screen, ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- 158.5 × 359.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-114270
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
Wade Fund, 1961.204
Registry history
- 1550–99 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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