Winter and Summer Flowers
White camellias bloom behind a large pine in the right screen and blue morning glories creep through bamboo in the left screen of this composition. The mountains and bridge suggest a continuous landscape, but the paintings actually juxtapose flowers of winter and summer, with time progressing from right to left. Kaihō Yūshō painted similar landscapes for Zen temples in Kyoto.
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Details
- Date
- c. 1600
- Dimensions
- image: height 1.57 m, width 3.576 m; overall: height 1.696 m, width 3.702 m; panel: height 1.696 m, width 0.617 m; with frame: height 1.732 m, width 3.738 m
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- John L. Severance Fund
Art Genome Taxonomy
11 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
Mountains, trees, flowering plants, and a distant spatial setting form the central subject, which the catalog describes as a continuous landscape.
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Flora Both · 99%
Pine, bamboo, white blossoms, green leaves, camellias, and morning glories are prominent botanical motifs.
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The Seasons Metadata · 98%
The catalog explicitly describes a juxtaposition of winter camellias and summer morning glories, with time progressing from right to left.
Visual Qualities
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Asymmetrical Visual · 96%
The botanical clusters and major pine are distributed unevenly across the broad screen, producing a clearly asymmetrical composition.
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Sparse Visual · 96%
Extensive open gold space and lightly rendered distant forms give the composition a sparse visual structure.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Both · 99%
The work is visibly a painted composition, and the Cleveland Museum of Art classifies it as Painting.
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Screen Format Both · 99%
Vertical panel seams and the broad horizontal format are visible in the image; the catalog identifies the object as one of a pair of six-panel folding screens.
Time Periods
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16th Century Art Metadata · 76%
The catalog dates the work to circa 1600, with a recorded range of 1595–1605; the 16th-century tag is therefore approximate because the date straddles the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Geographic Regions
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Japanese Art Metadata · 99%
The work is identified as Japanese and belongs to the Japanese Art classification and department.
Materials
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Gold Both · 99%
The image has a luminous gold-toned ground, and the catalog specifies ink, color, and gold on paper.
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Use of Paper Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies paper as the support.
Source & rights
Kaihō Yūshō (Japanese, 1533–1615). Winter and Summer Flowers. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 17,262 × 7,975 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available