Spring landscape with blossoming cherries

Object Details

• Label

  The spring scene with blossoming cherry trees set off against a deep green background of pines is painted in a style typical of the Kano school of professional painters. Kano painters were expertly trained in Japanese and Chinese painting techniques and were capable of painting in formats ranging from fans and handscrolls to folding screens and murals. Their highly organized workshop system and elite patronage centered in the politically dominant warrior class ensured the continuity of the Kano school from the late fifteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Seasons: Japanese Screens (July 9, 2011 to January 22, 2012)

  Japanese Screens (March 2007 to January 3, 2016)

  Life of a Japanese Painting (December 1, 1995 to October 16, 1996)

  Japanese Screens (February 11, 1983 to July 19, 1988)

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mrs. Garnet Hulings

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Pine tree, Landscapes, Art, Cherry tree, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Cherry blossom, Spring

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings