Farming and Herding Buffalo in Summer

Kano Hideyori (Japanese, active mid- to late 1500s)

1525–1599

Medium: hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions: Mounted: 137.5 x 47.3 cm (54 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
Genre: painting
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art

Styles

Japanese Art

Tags

Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573) to Momoyama period (1573–1615)

About

Hideyori is most famous as the painter of a very early pair of genre screen paintings depicting people enjoying autumn foliage at a shrine-temple complex in Mount Takao near Kyoto. In this scene, people are hard at work farming their fields and herding water buffalo in summer. Such scenes were often associated with promoting the ideal of a prosperous realm, and also with the activities of the 12 months. Historical sources are divided on the biography of painter Kano Hideyori, but many scholars now believe he was the second son of Kano Motonobu, head of the Kyoto-based Kano family atelier.

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