The Four Seasons, 1668. Kano Tanyū (Japanese, 1602-1674). Six-panel folding screen, ink and slight color on paper; image: 174 x 381 cm (68 1/2 x 150 in.). Tan'y?'s skills were honed early within the regimen of the Kano family's painting studio. His grandfather, Eitoku (1543-1590) was the Momoyama period's most sought-after painter, a champion of colorful, large-scale painting compositions who worked for several of the country's most powerful leaders. When the young Tan'y? was summoned to Edo in 1617 by the shogun to become a member of the new capital's official painting studio, few opportunities to work on similarly ambitious projects existed. Yet by the end of his career, Tan'y? had supervised the execution and installation of linked mural painting compositions in several of Japan's most prestigious residences and castles. As an official court painter to the first shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu (reigned 1603-5), and then his successors, Tan'y? appears to have successfully juggled his offic

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The Four Seasons, 1668. Kano Tanyū (Japanese, 1602-1674). Six-panel folding screen, ink and slight color on paper; image: 174 x 381 cm (68 1/2 x 150 in.). Tan'y?'s skills were honed early within the regimen of the Kano family's painting studio. His grandfather, Eitoku (1543-1590) was the Momoyama period's most sought-after painter, a champion of colorful, large-scale painting compositions who worked for several of the country's most powerful leaders. When the young Tan'y? was summoned to Edo in 1617 by the shogun to become a member of the new capital's official painting studio, few opportunities to work on similarly ambitious projects existed. Yet by the end of his career, Tan'y? had supervised the execution and installation of linked mural painting compositions in several of Japan's most prestigious residences and castles. As an official court painter to the first shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu (reigned 1603-5), and then his successors, Tan'y? appears to have successfully juggled his offic

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