Thatched huts along a shoreline from the <em>Three Dusks</em>
Kano Tan'yu 狩野探幽
1615
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- Ink and color on silk
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- Paintings
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Japanese ArtKakemonoEdo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)ArtCharles Lang Freer collection
About
This painting belongs to a set of three by Kano Tan'yu, a leading painter of the Kano school of professional artists. Inspiration for the paintings came from groups of poems known as the "Three Dusks" or "Three Evening Poems." The verse inscribed on this painting was composed by Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241):