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Screens, scrolls and gold leaf

Japanese Painting

Painted Japan rather than printed Japan: white hollyhocks on paper, Kōrin's rough waves, a plum tree carried across four sliding doors. Kōrin, Sōtatsu's studio, the Kano workshops, Ōkyo and Rosetsu. A kingfisher, a deer, small birds in the autumn millet, court women in a garden, mountains under a moon, in ink, colour and gold on paper and silk.

As a puzzle

Kind to build. The birds, the flowers and the dark branches give you clear places to start, and a gold ground is the slow part, since one gold piece looks much like the next. Most come out taller than they are wide, the hanging scrolls especially, while the screens and sliding doors run long, up to more than three times as wide as they are tall.

A good size here: 60–250 pieces.

Subjects here: LandscapesWinterAnimalsBirdsFlowersMountainsNightThe SeaSacred Art

27 pictures, pick one to build

Rough Waves Ogata Kōrin, ca. 1704–9 Winter Landscape Hayashi Hyakuhi 林百非, dated 1840 Winter Landscape Kano Tan'yū, 1662 Winter Landscape Kano Sansetsu 狩野山雪, second quarter of the 17th century Summer Landscape / Winter Landscape Hayashi Hyakuhi, 1842 Snow Landscape Hashimoto Gahō, ca. 1885–89 Birds and Flowers of Autumn and Winter Kano Chikanobu, early 18th century Puppies in the Snow Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪, 1792–99 Fantastic Rocks with Cascading Waterfall; Fishing Boats by a Lake Hamlet Aiseki, first half of the 19th century “The Oak Tree” Tosa Mitsuyoshi, late 16th–early 17th century Old Plum Kano Sansetsu, 1646 “Trees Encoiled in Vines of Ivy” (Yadorigi) Studio of Tawaraya Sōtatsu, early 17th century Hotei Ogata Kōrin, after 1704 Bodhidharma (Daruma) Attributed to Kano Sanraku 狩野山楽, 17th century River Landscape in Evening Seal of Kano Motonobu, 16th century Kingfisher Kano Tsunenobu Mountain Village in Spring Kano Hōgai, 1860s Goose and Reeds; Willows in the Moonlight Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙, right screen: 1774; left screen: 1793 Moonlit Landscape Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪, 1794–95 Mountain Landscape Soga Shōhaku, ca. 1761–63 White Hollyhocks In the Style of Tawaraya Sōtatsu, 17th century Deer Suzuki Kiitsu, 19th century Shakyamuni Emerging from the Mountains, with Dragon and Tiger Kano Sansetsu, second quarter 17th century Autumn Millet and Small Birds Attributed to Kano Sanraku Chinese Women in a Palace Garden Formerly attributed to Kano Eitoku, late 16th century Sketch for a Painting of Scholars at the Game of Go Kano artist after Kano Tan'yū, dated 1666 Landscape Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興, first half of the 18th century