Spring and Summer right of a pair of Landscapes of the Four Seasons, mid 16th century, Kano School, Japanese, 67 5/8 x 150 in. ( x 381 cm), Ink, light color, and gold on paper, Japan, 16th century, By the 1500s, Japanese painters had become adept at producing landscapes based on the imagined mountains and rivers of China. They based their works on prototypes produced by famous painters from Chinese antiquity, including Ma Yuan (c. 1160/65–1225) and Xia Gui (active c. 1195–1230). Stylistically, however, the Japanese approach—particularly that of artists associated with the Kano house

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