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Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons


Shiki kachô zu byôbu
四季花鳥図屏風
Kano Einô (Japanese, 1631–1697)
Japanese
Edo period
latter half of the 17th century

Medium/Technique One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions Image: 160.5 x 370 cm (63 3/16 x 145 11/16 in.)
Mount: 175.3 x 388.6 cm (69 x 153 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4430
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #49; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. I (Kano), no. 289(2)
Signed Kano Nuinosuke Eino
ProvenancePrior to 1886 purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886 purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911 bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA.