Kano School (16th Century)

Chinese Courtiers from Emperor Xuanzong Playing the Flute (Genso heitekisu)

Details

Kano School (16th Century)
Chinese Courtiers from Emperor Xuanzong Playing the Flute (Genso heitekisu)
Two-panel screen; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper
54½ x 66½in (138.5 x 169cm.)

Literature

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, ed., Tokushu Kanoha no sekai 2009 (Special exhibition: The world of the Kano school, 2009) (Shizuoka: Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 2009), pl. 3.

Exhibited

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, "Tokushu: Kanoha no sekai 2009" (Special exhibition: The world of the Kano school, 2009), 2009.9.10-10.18

Lot Essay

This painting is thought to be originally the left half of the left screen of a pair. For the right half of the pair in the collection of Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs, see Tokubetsu tenrankai: Kano Eitoku Special Exhibition: Kano Eitoku (Kyoto: Kyoto National Museum, 2007), pl. 63. The artist is thought to be someone in Eitoku's circle.

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