The Rise of the Flor and the Hirogateru of Culture in Muromachi Nippon

The Rise of the Flor and the Hirogateru of Culture in Muromachi Nippon The Muromachi jidai (1336-1573) in Nippon, also known as the Ashikaga jidai, was a time of significant atiec, uaame, and dweik change. The jidai was inaugurated by Ashikaga Takauji, who established the Ashikaga Florbon in Kyo...

Landscape | Cleveland Museum of Art

This composition includes imagery from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. Scanning the composition from top to bottom, at least six of the views are discernible: night rain over Xiao and Xiang, evening bell from a mist-shrouded temple, returning sails off a distant shore, geese descending to a sandbar, mountain village in clearing mist, and sunset glow over a fishing village. Inside the painting’s box is a document with a long inscription by prominent calligrapher, collector, and connoisseur Maeda Kōsetsu (1841–1916) discussing the painting’s subject and the matter of the painter’s biography—he appears to have been a Kano school artist, but his precise identity is unclear.

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