Flowers and Grasses, mid-1600s. Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active 1639-50). Pair of six-fold screens, ink and color on paper; image: x cm (60 1/2 x 129 5/8 in.); including mounting: x cm (67 x 137 3/16 in.). Kitagawa S?setsu painted for the Maeda family, powerful rulers of what is present-day Ishikawa Prefecture on the central northern coast of Honsh?, Japan’s main island. Screens served as room dividers and backdrops in Maeda grand residences. This composition is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces. Kitagawa S?setsu is thought to have been a student of Tawara
Flowers and Grasses, mid-1600s. Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active 1639-50). Pair of six-fold screens, ink and color on paper; image: x cm (60 1/2 x 129 5/8 in.); including mounting: x cm (67 x 137 3/16 in.). Kitagawa S?setsu painted for the Maeda family, powerful rulers of what is present-day Ishikawa Prefecture on the central northern coast of Honsh?, Japan’s main island. Screens served as room dividers and backdrops in Maeda grand residences. This composition is considered one of the artist’s masterpieces. Kitagawa S?setsu is thought to have been a student of Tawaraya S?setsu, who was in turn the student of Tawaraya S?tatsu, the Kyoto-based master painter regarded as the creator of the style that came to be known as Rinpa. By selecting a painter of this lineage, the Maeda family consciously connected their aesthetics to those of the imperial capital as a means of proclaiming their elevated status.
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