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Source Description
Kitagawa Sōsetsu painted for the Maeda family, powerful rulers of what is present-day Ishikawa Prefecture on the central northern coast of Honshū, Japan’s main island. Screens served as room dividers and backdrops in Maeda grand residences. This composition is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces. Kitagawa Sōsetsu is thought to have been a student of Tawaraya Sōsetsu, who was in turn the student of Tawaraya Sōtatsu, the Kyoto-based master painter regarded as the creator of the style that came to be known as Rinpa. By selecting a painter of this lineage, the Maeda family consciously connected their aesthetics to those of the imperial capital as a means of proclaiming their elevated status.
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Document identity
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143753
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Flowers and Grasses
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painting
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143753
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painting
title
Flowers and Grasses
description
Kitagawa Sōsetsu painted for the Maeda family, powerful rulers of what is present-day Ishikawa Prefecture on the central northern coast of Honshū, Japan’s main island. Screens served as room dividers and backdrops in Maeda grand residences. This composition is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces. Kitagawa Sōsetsu is thought to have been a student of Tawaraya Sōsetsu, who was in turn the student of Tawaraya Sōtatsu, the Kyoto-based master painter regarded as the creator of the style that came to be known as Rinpa. By selecting a painter of this lineage, the Maeda family consciously connected their aesthetics to those of the imperial capital as a means of proclaiming their elevated status.
date
mid-1600s
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q60469898
creators
11288
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Painting
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Image: 153.7 x 329.2 cm (60 1/2 x 129 5/8 in.); Including mounting: 170.2 x 348.4 cm (67 x 137 3/16 in.)
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Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
accession
1968.193.2
Source extras
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pair of six-fold screens, ink and color on paper
tombstone
Flowers and Grasses (花草図屏風), mid-1600s. Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active 1639–50). Pair of six-fold screens, ink and color on paper; image: 153.7 x 329.2 cm (60 1/2 x 129 5/8 in.); including mounting: 170.2 x 348.4 cm (67 x 137 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1968.193.2
titleInOriginalLanguage
花草図屏風
collection
ASIAN - Folding screen
inscriptions
inscription
two seals, lower left: "I-nen; Sosetsu"
formerAccessionNumbers
1968.194
citations
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 284
citation
Stern, Harold P. <em>Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs: The Nature of Japan</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1976.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 25, pp. 62–64
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. 384
citation
Cuningham, Michael R.<em> Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page_number
Reproduced: pp. 32–33
creditline
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 07:22:39.794000
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143753
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Japanese Art
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ASIAN - Folding screen
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pair of six-fold screens, ink and color on paper
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male
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