Lot 703: Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674)

Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674)
Agricultural Scenes in the Four Seasons
Each signed Tan'yu hoin gyonen nanajussai hitsu, each sealed Kunaikyo hoin and Seimei
Pair of six-panel screens; ink, slight color and gold wash on paper
63 1/8 x 139½in. (160.2 x 354.2cm.) each (2)

Galerie des Beaux-Arts Bordeaux, Bordeaux, "L'art du Japon: Période Edo, 1600-1868: Musée d'Art de Fukuoka" (Art of Japan: Edo period, 1600-1868: Fukuoka Art Museum), 1982.11.8-28

Fukuoka Art Museum, "Shuzohin ni yoru byobue meihinten" (Exhibition of screen-painting masterpieces in the museum collection), 1983.12.27-1984.2.12

Fukuoka Art Museum, "Haru no meihinten" (Spring exhibition of masterpieces), 1988.3.29-4.24

Saga Prefectural Art Museum, "Kaikan goshunen kinen: Den'en fuzokuga ten" (Commemorating the 5th anniversary of the museum's opening: Exhibition of paintings featuring genre scenes in the countryside), 1988.9.30-10.23

Fukuoka Art Museum, "Byobue meihin ten" (Exhibition of masterpieces of screen painting), 1990.12.4-1991.1.27

Galerie des Beaux-Arts Bordeaux, ed., L'art du Japon: Période Edo, 1600-1868: Musée d'Art de Fukuoka (Art of Japan: Edo period, 1600-1868: Fukuoka Art Museum) (Bordeaux: Galerie des Beaux-Arts Bordeaux, 1982), pl. 1.

Reizei Tamehito, Namiki Seishi, Kono Michiaki and Iwasaki Takehiko, Mizuho no kuni, Nippon-shiki kousakuzu no sekai (The land of vigorous rice plants: The world of farming life in Japan's four seasons) (Kyoto: Tankosha, 1996), p. 48.

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674)
Agricultural Scenes in the Four Seasons
Each signed Tan'yu hoin gyonen nanajussai hitsu, each sealed Kunaikyo hoin and Seimei
Pair of six-panel screens; ink, slight color and gold wash on paper
63 1/8 x 139½in. (160.2 x 354.2cm.) each (2)