Birds and Flowers mid-16th century Traditionally attributed to Kano Motonobu These three paintings, a set that may have originally included a fourth, represent flowers, birds, and insects of the seasons. They also represent the early Kano-school approach to the flower-and-bird genre influenced in part by Chinese paintings. Apart from the floral subjects, landscape elements are kept to a minimum, with blank space as the primary background. The first depicts plum blossoms with bamboo and a billing pair of robins (spring), the second what appears to be hibiscus and lily with a jay() hovering overhead (summer), the third, plumed coxcomb keit, with a praying mantis, a cricket, and a dragonfly (autumn). Summer and autumn bear the red cauldron-shaped "Motonobu" seal—of which several versions exist—associated with Kano Motonobu, official painter to the Ashikaga shoguns. While impressed with the seal of the master, these works might have been painted by his son Shei (1519-1592).Motonobu, the

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Birds and Flowers mid-16th century Traditionally attributed to Kano Motonobu These three paintings, a set that may have originally included a fourth, represent flowers, birds, and insects of the seasons. They also represent the early Kano-school approach to the flower-and-bird genre influenced in part by Chinese paintings. Apart from the floral subjects, landscape elements are kept to a minimum, with blank space as the primary background. The first depicts plum blossoms with bamboo and a billing pair of robins (spring), the second what appears to be hibiscus and lily with a jay() hovering overhead (summer), the third, plumed coxcomb keit, with a praying mantis, a cricket, and a dragonfly (autumn). Summer and autumn bear the red cauldron-shaped "Motonobu" seal—of which several versions exist—associated with Kano Motonobu, official painter to the Ashikaga shoguns. While impressed with the seal of the master, these works might have been painted by his son Shei (1519-1592).Motonobu, the

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