Asian Art

Bamboo in the Four Seasons

Bamboo in the Four Seasons is a late 15th century Japanese folding screen painting spanning six panels, attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu, but definitively within the Tosa school. Depicting bamboo at different stages of growth throughout the seasons, the piece presents a transitory state, both of the plant, the seasons, as well as that of the evolution of the Tosa school and Muromachi period styles, which adapted the bamboo motif from previous Chinese paintings. It is currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1975.

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