Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons

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Flowers and Grasses of the Four Seasons

Shiki kusabana zu byôbu
四季草花図屏風

Formerly attributed to: Tawaraya Sôtatsu (Japanese, died about 1640)

Japanese

Edo period

18th–19th centuries

Medium/Technique One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold-leafed paper

Dimensions 148.3 x 341.7 cm (58 3/8 x 134 1/2 in.) (height x width)

Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection

Accession Number11.4587

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. VIII (Rimpa), no. 5 (2)

InscriptionsArtist's signature: [ ]
Vermillion seal: [ ]

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 Museum.