Tartars Playing Polo, Kano Furunobu, early 18th century

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Tartars Playing Polo, Edo period (1615–1868), early 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, 19 1/2 x 41 1/8 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Kano Furunobu (Japanese, 1696–1731), Along with hunting, polo exercised great appeal as a subject for poets, painters, and craftsmen in ancient China. During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, hundreds of years after the sport's decline in the region, polo made a sudden reappearance as a subject for painting in Japan

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