Japanese and Chinese Poems of the Four Seasons

Konoe Sakihisa, late 16th–early 17th century

Artist

Konoe Sakihisa (Japanese, 1536–1612)

Date

late 16th–early 17th century

Culture or place

Japan

Medium

Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and metallic pigments on decorated-paper shikishi (poetry cards) on gold leaf

Size

Image (Panels 1 & 6 both Screens): 38 3/4 × 16 15/16 in. (98.4 × 43 cm) Image (Panels 2,3,4,5 both screens): 38 3/4 × 18 11/16 in. (98.4 × 47.5 cm) Overall (each) 43 5/16 in. × 9 ft. 5 3/8 in. (110 × 288 cm)

Type

Paintings

Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Licence

Public domain: free to use, no permission needed