Japanese Four-Panel Kano School Manchurian Crane Screen

Large Japanese Meiji period six-panel screen depicting a winter landscape with a Chinese sage visiting friends in a country villa. Ink and vivid color pigments on mulberry paper mounted to a gilt background. Painted in the 19th century Kano school...

Enchanting Japanese Showa period six-panel byobu screen titled "Bamboo Forest-Immortal Together". The large screen depicts six manchurian cranes in a ...

Captivating 20th century Japanese style byobu four-panel folding screen. The screen is titled ancient pine/longevity cranes signed on left side with an artist seal Ying Jun. The scre...

Late Edo period 19th century Japanese six-panel landscape screen featuring a cypress tree over a flowering hibiscus with a pair of hototogisu birds. Kano school painted with ink and ...

Early 19th century late Edo period Japanese four-panel screen depicting examples from the 24 paragons of filial piety. Painted in the Kano School style featuring figures in colorful,...

Stunning late 19th century Japanese Meiji period six panel byobu screen featuring a deep blue waterscape with pheasants and ducks. Made in the Kano sch...

In Japan, cranes symbolize fidelity as they mate for life and turtles symbolize longevity. Additionally, this screen also has the Japanese motif of sho-chiku-bai, or the three friends of winter (pine, plum, and bamboo). So called the three friends of winter because all three flourish during the cold months. This screen was originally fusuma doors...

Pines and Cranes Anonymous. Kyoto Kano School. Late 17th/early 18th centuries, circa 1700. Pair of six-panel Japanese folding screens. Ink, gofun, pigment and gold leaf on paper. This bold composition presents two pine trees extending to the left and right across a gold leaf background. One tree is silhouetted against a green ground, golden clouds obscuring its true size, the other stretches across a stylized waterway. The pines are paired with Manchurian cranes with red crests and snow white plumage. Both have been highly auspicious motifs in East Asia since Chinese antiquity. Here the artist utilized fluid and instinctive ink brushstrokes to define the trunk, branches and tail feathers, in strong contrast to the precision and sharp angularity of the crane’s legs and beaks. The adoption of this vast metallic painting support required an unerring sense of design and composition, so that the negative space surrounding motifs could imply context for the otherwise floating pictorial elements. The brushwork detailing the trunks of the pines, the exaggerated dimensions of the pine trees and the strength and dynamism of the composition are all reminiscent of Kano Eitoku...

Japanese Kano school screen with pine tree, camellias, cherry blossom and Chinese figures in the landscape, circa 18th century. Materials: Pigmen...

Kano style painting in mineral pigments on silk with a silk brocade border.

Japanese four-panel screen: Water landscape, Meiji period (1868-1912) painting of a waterfall on the left, leading to a meandering stream amongst a hi...

Early Kano School painting of pine trees overlooking two beautifully painted cranes and floral design in a natural setting by water’s edge. Mineral pig...