Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape

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Artist: Kano Motonobu (Japanese, c. 1476–1559)
Date: 1500s
Medium: One of a set of sliding door panels mounted as hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: painting only: height 1.771 m, width 1.371 m; including mounting: height 2.591 m, width 1.511 m
Origin: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
Department: Japanese Art
Holding institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Palette: Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #D9C09E · 68%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #AC9375 · 10%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #817158 · 8%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #BEA686 · 6%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #483F33 · 4%

Ochre Kiln · Orange family · #9F661D · 2%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #BF9036 · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #36413F · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #2E2E33 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #D5AF7B · <1%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #EFD8B9 · <1%

Wheat Straw · Yellow family · #D3A35E · <1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #853B28 · <1%

Flax Ground · Yellow family · #C0B895 · <1%

Willow Ash · Green family · #899175 · <1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #58645C · <1%

Museum Mount · Gray family · #BBB2A7 · <1%

Shell Cameo · Pink family · #C77E73 · <1%

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Image provider: cleveland-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

12 tags

Landscapes Both · 99%

The title identifies a spring landscape, and the image shows flowering vegetation, rock formations, open terrain, and distant mountain ridges.
Animals Visual · 99%

Several birds are clearly depicted: two prominent birds in the foreground, one perched bird at right, and two birds in flight in the distance.
Flora Both · 99%

Flowering branches, blossoms, leaves, grasses, and other vegetation occupy much of the lower and central composition.

Earth Tones Visual · 96%

The composition is dominated by muted beige, gray, brown, ochre, and green tones, with concentrated red and orange accents in the birds and blossoms.
Highly Detailed Visual · 96%

The foreground birds, blossoms, leaves, grasses, and rock surfaces are rendered with dense and careful linear detail.
Sparse Visual · 93%

Large lightly washed areas of largely unoccupied paper surround the more concentrated foreground and mountain motifs.

Painting Metadata · 99%

The catalog classifies the object as a painting and records the medium as ink and color on paper.
Work on Paper Both · 99%

The catalog explicitly identifies paper as the support, which is also visible as the pale painted ground.
Hanging Scroll Metadata · 99%

The catalog describes the work as one of a set of sliding door panels mounted as hanging scrolls.
East Asian Ink-and-Wash Painting Both · 94%

The image combines ink outlines and washes with colored passages, especially in the birds, blossoms, leaves, and rocks; the catalog records ink and color on paper.

16th Century Art Metadata · 98%

The Cleveland Museum of Art dates the work to the 1500s, with a catalog date range of 1500–1559.

Japanese Art Metadata · 99%

The supplied catalog identifies the work as originating in Japan and classifies it within Japanese Art.

Kano Motonobu (Japanese, c. 1476–1559). Flowers and Birds in a Spring Landscape. Cleveland Museum of Art.