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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
* {'description': '渡邊始興 : 琳派の異才 : 大覚寺 障壁画 を 中心に [Watanabe Shikouten : Rin pa no isai : Dai kakuji shōhekiga wo chū shin ni]. Kyōto City Art Museum, Kyōto, Japan (March 18–April 11, 1973).', 'opening_date': '1973-04-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (November 15, 1998–February 15, 1999).', 'opening_date': '1998-11-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '渡辺始興の絵画 [Paintings of Watanabe Shikō]. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (December 18, 2018–January 27, 2019).', 'opening_date': '2018-12-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
date: 2021-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Kyoto City Art Museum, ed. Rinpa no issai: Watanabe Shikō-ten: Daikakuji shōheiga o chūshin ni [= 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 [= Rimpa: Succession of Beauty—Sotatsu, Korin, Hoitsu, Kiitsu]. 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.). Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868. 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 Kadō: Ikenobo [Way of Flowers: Journal of the Ikenobo School of Ikebana], January 2019, pp. 56–57.
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