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accession number:	2021.132
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Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons, early to mid-1700s. Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755). Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper; each screen: 155 x 368.5 cm (61 x 145 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2021.132

title:				Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons
title in original language:	四季花木図屏風
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creation date:			early to mid-1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1725
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Folding screen
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755)  - artist

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measurements: Each screen: 155 x 368.5 cm (61 x 145 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	始興之印
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* 渡邊始興 : 琳派の異才 : 大覚寺 障壁画 を 中心に [<em>Watanabe Shikouten : Rin pa no isai : Dai kakuji shōhekiga wo chū shin ni</em>]<em>. </em>Kyōto City Art Museum, Kyōto, Japan (March 18–April 11, 1973).

* <em>Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868</em>. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (November 15, 1998–February 15, 1999).

* 渡辺始興の絵画 [<em>Paintings of Watanabe Shikō</em>]. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (December 18, 2018–January 27, 2019).

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PROVENANCE

	London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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fun fact:
One plant in these screens, tumeric, or <em>ukon</em> in Japanese, is found in Okinawa.

digital description:
The painter Watanabe Shikō had a special interest in scientific realism, based on interactions with his patron Konoe Iehiro. Shikō combined his attention to accurate depiction of plants with strong ink outlines and decorative elements like gold and silver, arriving at an innovative style that influenced many of his peers in the city of Kyoto.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Kyoto City Art Museum, ed. <em>Rinpa no issai: Watanabe Shikō-ten: Daikakuji shōheiga o chūshin ni</em> [= 渡邊始興: 琳派の異才: 大覚寺 障壁画 を 中心に]. Kyoto: Kyoto City Museum, 1973.
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	Takeuchi Misako, “Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons,” in Takeuchi Misako, et al., 琳派 : 特别展 : 美の継承 - 宗達, 光琳, 抱一, 其一 [= <em>Rimpa: Succession of Beauty—Sotatsu, Korin, Hoitsu, Kiitsu</em>]. Nagoya: Nagoya City Museum, 1994.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, pp. 201–202
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	Takeuchi, Melinda. “Watanabe Shikō (1683–1755): Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons,” in Singer, Robert T, John T Carpenter, et al., Japan Foundation, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan., National Gallery of Art (U.S.). <em>Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868</em>. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 162, p. 306–307
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	Fukushi Yuya, “Watanabe Shikō hitsu: shiki sōka zu byōbu [Screens of Grasses and Flowers of the Four Seasons Painted by Watanabe Shikō],” in <em>Kadō: Ikenobo</em> [Way of Flowers: Journal of the Ikenobo School of Ikebana], January 2019, pp. 56–57.
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