Landscape with Temple

Kanō Naonobu, artist

1607–1650

Landscape with Temple, mid 1600s, Edo period (1600–1868)

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: paper; ink

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 128.6 x 209.6 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 143.8 x 224.8 cm

Credit line: Gift of Curtis Besinger

Accession number: 1991.0066

Not on display

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The Kanō school epitomizes the power of the ruling Tokugawa government in Japan. Kanō painters received official patronag from shoguns (military rulers) and commissions from Buddhist monks and wealthy merchants to produce paintings. Architectural spaces including castles, grand audience halls, and Zen Buddhist temples were places to display screens like this one. Folding screens also functioned as decorative spatial barriers. On the right panel of this painting, a temple emerges from the quiet landscape painted with varying thickness of ink.

Archive Label 2003:
This fragment is from a copy of the Perfection of Wisdom, a collection of Buddhist scripture that was originally written around 100 C.E. in India. Sutras were often copied or paid for by believers as a way of attaining merit for themselves or their ancestors.