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Fowl in Spring and Summer Landscape


Birds and Flowers
花鳥図屏風
Kano Shôei (Japanese, 1519–1592)
Japanese
Muromachi period
16th century

Medium/Technique Six-panel folding screen; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions 152.2 x 360.0 cm (59 15/16 x 141 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4347
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), pp. 102-3; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. VII (Early Kano & Momoyama ptg.), no. 41
ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Ernest Francisco Fenollosa. Purchased by Charles Goddard Weld in 1886. Bequeathed to the MFA in 1911.