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Seasonal Landscapes: Winter
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About this work
Now comprising three scrolls, this composition was originally a set of four paintings depicting the seasons. The set is among the most important of the artist’s surviving works. Each painting was executed in the gyō mode, indicating a speedy brush with rounded strokes. The terms shin (formal), sō (cursive), and gyō (semicursive), borrowed from calligraphy terminology, are terms commonly used by connoisseurs to describe brushwork in ink paintings.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSeasonal Landscapes: Winter, mid- to late 1500s. Kano Hideyori (Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s). Hanging scroll, ink on paper; image: 64 x 36.1 cm (25 3/16 x 14 3/16 in.); with knobs: 152.8 x 54.9 cm (60 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1988.13.2
