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Kanō School
Battle of Ichinotani from the Tale of Heikecirca 1650-1690

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Six-panel folding screen, ink and mineral pigments on gold leaf, depicting a large-scale battle with dozens of mounted warriors, foot soldiers, and architectural compounds across a continuous landscape
Six-panel Japanese folding screen with gold-leaf ground, depicting a large-scale battle scene with numerous mounted and foot soldiers, architectural structures, and stylized green trees and clouds across a continuous panoramic composition; blue waves with a red boat at lower left; ink and color on gold.
Two-panel Japanese folding screen with ink and mineral pigments on gold leaf, depicting a large-scale battle scene. Mounted warriors in armor clash across golden terrain with pine trees and stylized clouds; foot soldiers and cavalry fill the middle ground near a red-and-white pavilion. Below, stylized blue-green waves carry red-bannered vessels with armed figures. Fine detailed brushwork throughout.
Two-panel Japanese folding screen with ink and color on gold-leaf ground, depicting a battle scene across a multi-tiered landscape. Mounted warriors and foot soldiers in armor clash in the lower foreground near stylized white waves; courtly figures observe from a roofed pavilion at center right; additional combat unfolds on green hillsides in the upper background, with gold clouds separating the spatial registers.
Two-panel Japanese folding screen painting on gold-leaf ground, depicting a large-scale battle scene with numerous armored warriors on foot and horseback, architectural structures, pine trees, and stylized clouds separating episodes across a receding landscape.
Japanese screen painting on gold ground depicting a large-scale battle scene; densely packed warriors in red and black armor with bows, spears, and banners surge around white-paneled structures beneath gnarled pine trees, with stylized clouds in green and gold framing the upper composition.
Two-panel Japanese screen painting on gold ground depicting a battle scene with warriors in lamellar armor wielding swords and naginata; rocky landscape with pine and clouds rendered in mineral pigments.
Detail of a Japanese painted composition on gold ground, depicting a chaotic battle scene with numerous armored warriors on horseback and on foot, wielding spears and swords; stylized waves at lower left, figures rendered in fine brushwork with red, blue, and black lacquered armor.
Japanese painting on gold ground depicting a battle scene with mounted and armored warriors in yoroi; a raised white-and-red command platform with streaming red banners occupies the upper center, surrounded by pine trees; groups of warriors on horseback and foot engage across the composition, rendered in detailed mineral pigments.
Japanese narrative painting on gold-leafed ground, depicting multiple armored figures in a mountainous landscape across two registers; warriors in red and blue armor pursue a deer in the upper scene, while figures with bows and spears gather near a white fenced enclosure below, with a robed court figure seated at right.
Japanese painting on gold-ground, battle scene with armored warriors on horseback descending a hillside; figures wear red and black yoroi armor and carry banners, with a fallen horse and rider tumbling down the slope at lower left, and green trees dotting rolling hills below
Japanese ink and color painting on paper depicting a warrior in blue armor and antlered helmet holding a severed head aloft on a spear, standing over a fallen figure in red and white armor, with a mountainous landscape and pine branches in the background.
Detail of a Japanese painting on gold ground depicting a battle scene with armored warriors on horseback wielding swords, fallen figures below, stylized waves at the lower edge, and a gnarled tree in the upper right; vivid pigments in red, blue, and green with fine ink linework.
Pair of painted folding screen panels depicting a large-scale battle scene, with densely packed armored warriors on horseback and foot. At upper left, archers stand on an elevated white-railed platform beneath red banners. Gold-leaf clouds separate pine trees and a blue rocky outcrop at center. Figures in colorful lacquered armor clash around a white gate structure at right, rendered in fine ink line with mineral pigments on a gold ground.
Artist or Maker
Kanō School
Japan, active 16th-19th centuries
Title
Battle of Ichinotani from the Tale of Heike
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1650-1690
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
One from a pair of six-panel screens; ink and colors on paper
Dimensions
image: 60 × 140 5/8 in. (152.4 × 357.19 cm); mount: 66 1/4 × 147 7/8 in. (168.28 × 375.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lidow
Accession Number
M.82.94.1
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Kuwayama, George. The Joy of Collecting: Far Eastern Art From The Lidow Collection. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1979.
  • Phil Freshman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1983. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
  • Dunbar, Elizabeth. Zephyr: Paintings by Gajin Fujita. Kansas City, Missouri: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006.