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Sekkei lived and studied painting in Kyoto at the Kano school studio, the center of traditional painting activity in Japan since 1500. The use of gold foil as a backdrop for the frolicking animals served a practical as well as a decorative function. Because traditional Japanese rooms had no windows, interior lighting came from portable oil lamps and wax candles, whose effects were magnified by reflective surfaces.
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Document identity
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146211
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Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo
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painting
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146211
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painting
title
Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo
description
Sekkei lived and studied painting in Kyoto at the Kano school studio, the center of traditional painting activity in Japan since 1500. The use of gold foil as a backdrop for the frolicking animals served a practical as well as a decorative function. Because traditional Japanese rooms had no windows, interior lighting came from portable oil lamps and wax candles, whose effects were magnified by reflective surfaces.
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1668
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q60472003
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35579
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Painting
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1972.1
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pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper
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Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo (牡丹に唐獅子と竹に虎図屏風), 1668. Yamaguchi Sekkei (Japanese, 1644–1732). Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1972.10
titleInOriginalLanguage
牡丹に唐獅子と竹に虎図屏風
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ASIAN - Folding screen
citations
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 383
citation
Cunningham, Michael R. "The Japanese Painter Yamaguchi Sekkei." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 1 (1980): 2-16.
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Reproduced: cover, p. 3-4; Mentioned: p. 2-16
citation
Cunningham, Michael R. <em>Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
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Reproduced: pp. 38–39
citation
Koyama-Richard, Brigitte. <em>Animaux Dans La Peinture Japonaise</em>. Lyon: Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2020.
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Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 102–103
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John L. Severance Fund
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2026-05-29 07:30:22.563000
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146211
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Folding screen
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pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gilded paper
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male
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