The Flowers of the Four Seasons by Yokoyama Seiki

Details

Medium:

Ink & colour on gold leaf, mounted on paper stretched on wooden screens

Dimensions:

168 x 750 cm

Art Fund grant:

£10,000 ( Total: £52,000)

Acquired in:

1992

Vendor:

Takashi Yanagi

The sixfold screens are richly decorated with flowers, trees and birds in colours on a ground of gold leaf and illustrate how Shijo artists, like Seiki, captured the appearance of nature, whilst maintaining the traditional use of carefully structured composition and decorative gold background.

Provenance

Takashi Yanagi.