Landscape in Moonlight after 1662 Kano Tan'y Japanese Kano Tan’y brilliantly recasts landscape motifs taken from the traditional subject Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang Rivers. In an ethereal panoramic view, the artist balances unpainted void with painted form and exploits the separate-but-linked quality of the triptych format. These paintings (1975.268.49-.51) by Tan’y, the Tokugawa shogunate’s official painter (goy-eshi), reveal a striking shift of taste from the lush heroic style of the Momoyama period (late sixteenth to early seventeenth century) to the more subdued and erudite style of the Kano school, which dominated Japanese art through the Edo period. All three scrolls bear the signature “Hin Tan’y,” which indicates that they were made after the influential painter was granted the honorific title Hin (Seal of the Buddhist Law) from the palace in 1662 at age sixty-one.. Landscape in Moonlight. Kano Tan'y (Japanese, 1602-1674). Japan. after 1662. One of a triptych of hangin
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