A pair of six-fold screens with fans over flowing water
#6875
Tawaraya Sōtatsu school
H: 180cm x W:381cm (71" x 150")
Private collection, United Kingdom
A pair of six-fold semmen nagashi-zu byōbu (screens with fans over flowing water) painted in ink and colour on a gold and silver ground with scattered fans over a mountainous coastal landscape. The clouds and mist are rendered in both gold and silver sunago (gold/silver dust), and the detail of the motifs on several of the fans, as well as the rivet of each fan, is executed in moriage (raised design).
The paintings on the fans display motifs associated with the four seasons. The motifs appearing on the fans of the right-hand screen include tsubaki (camellia), ume (plum blossom), shirayuri (white lily), ajisai (hydrangea), take (bamboo), tessen (Chinese clematis), kikyō (Chinese bellflower), kiku (chrysanthemum), asagao (morning glory), and keshi (poppy).
The seasonal motifs which appear on the fans of the left-hand screen include hagi (bush clover), momiji (maple leaves), botan (peony), budō (grapes), take (bamboo), kiku (chrysanthemum), fuji (wisteria), sakura (cherry blossom), nadeshiko (pinks), tonbo (dragonflies), chōchō (butterflies), chidori (plovers), tsubame (swallows), aranami (surging waves) and a snow-covered Fujisan (Mount Fuji).
School of Tawaraya Sōtatsu (died ca.1640).
Japan, 17th century, Edo period.
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