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Yamaguchi Soken
Flowers and Plants of the Four Seasonslate 18th-early 19th century

Not on view
Six-panel folding screen, ink and color on gold leaf, with a continuous botanical composition: a bare-branched tree with red berries at left, trailing green vines and lavender flower clusters at center, and white-blossomed shrubs and bamboo at right
Ink on paper with two Chinese characters in flowing cursive script, followed below by a square red seal stamp with carved seal script characters, on aged tan paper.
Artist or Maker
Yamaguchi Soken
Japan, 1759-1818
Title
Flowers and Plants of the Four Seasons
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late 18th-early 19th century
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
One from a pair of six-panel screens; ink and color on gold leafedf paper
Dimensions
Overall: 60 3/4 x 100 1/16 in. (154.3 x 254.1 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jerry Louise and Robert Johnson
Accession Number
M.82.149.2b
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Speer, Richard. The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020.