A pair of folding screens with pampas grassesMid Edo period (1615 - 1867)18th century171 x 378 cm each This pair of screens represents bushes of pampas grasses (suzuki) floating in a rich gilded ground.Being the pampas grasses a typical autumn plant it is often connected, as the season itself, with the cycle of life and its transience.In the plain of Kanto, now Tokyo, there was a huge and beautiful expanse of pampas grasses called Musashino. Since ancient times many Japanese poets have praised the Musashino views: it is probably this enchanted place that is represented on this pair of...
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Rinpa SchoolEarly Edo period (1615-1867), 17th centurySix-fold screen; gold ground.169 x 376 cm The term ‘Rinpa’ is an amalgamation between the last syllable from ‘Kōrin’, name of the mayor exponent of this artistic movement, and the word pa, literally “school” or “group”. However, it is to say that this name was given only later, in the 17th century, when Kōrin (1658 – 1716) further developed the school’s style. Concretely it refers to the broadly teaching of Kōrin masters. The first promoters of the Rinpa style are identified...
Edo Period (1615-1867), 19th centurySealed by the artist in red ink, 138 by 304 cmThis pair of screens belongs to a genre of lyrical paintings of flowers, grasses, and other plants that flourished around the middle of the seventeenth century and became a specialty of the Sôtatsu studio. The use of a rather complex composition of clusters of flowers and the puddling of ink was initiated by Tawaraya Sôtatsu, the founder of the Rimpa school, who was active from 1600 until 1642. The screens are abstract and decorative but there is, at the same time, a keen sense of naturalism not only in the...
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