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Spring Landscape from a Poem by Kino Tadana

Establishment
Kyoto Imperial Palace
Building
Otsunegoten
Room
Ichi-no-ma
Asset Type
Fusuma & Wall Paintings
AuthorKano Eigaku
PeriodAnsei Era
Production date1855
SizeH1.89m×W0.98m
MaterialColor, powdered gold leaf on paper   
FormatSliding-door panel
Original/CopyOriginal

A landscape of early spring is depicted with peach trees by a mountain stream and fresh green willow trees swaying in the breeze. The painting visualised the image of a Chinese poem called Shunkou (poetic scenery in spring) in the “Wakan-roeishu” (Anthology of Japanese and Chinese Verses for Recitation).