Chinese Woman in a Boat and Figures in Landscapes, Attributed to Kano Kōi, early 17th century

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Chinese Woman in a Boat and Figures in Landscapes, Edo period (1615–1868), early 17th century, Japan, Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper, 46 1/2 x 19 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Attributed to Kano Kōi (Japanese, died 1636), The practice of displaying a religious painting between two secular paintings, usually landscapes, began in earnest in the Muromachi period (1392–1568). The contrast and interaction between the otherworldly space of the central Buddhist figure and the more concrete space and seasonal time of landscape in this world plays visually with notions of duality and nonduality that concerned much Zen metaphysical thought

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